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Solid State Drives No Better Than Others, Survey Says

Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 12/14/2010 10:10 AM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

PC World posted a news story that the results of a French hardware failure survey turn up some surprising results, including that solid state disks fail as much as traditional hard disks.

Solid state drives (SSD) appear to be as unreliable as traditional hard disks. In fact, they're marginally less reliable: Taken as an average across models, 2.05 percent of SSDs got returned as non-functioning, compared to 1.94 percent of hard disks.

Solid State Drives No Better Than Others, Survey Says