A cloud backup company has published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives and hard disk drives, and you might be surprised by the results.

Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

The company had been exclusively using HDDs up until mid-2018, at which point it began employing SSDs as boot drives on a trial basis.

Solid state drives (SSDs) are more reliable than hard disk drives (HDDs) over five years of usage. But that's not the only thing to think about when shopping.

New findings from cloud storage and backup company Backblaze has shed light on the long-term reliability of SSDs versus HDDs, when deployed as boot drives.

SSD vs. HDD: What's the Difference? Solid-state drives have replaced hard disk drives as the storage of choice in just about all new PCs, but some situations still call for old-school platter drives.

If you aren't quite sure what type of storage to buy, we'll let you know which one is faster, cheaper, and better overall, providing explanations and tips throughout our HDD vs sSSDsd comparison ...

SSDs Solid-state Drives (SSDs) use nonvolatile, semiconductor-based flash memory, which offers higher data transfer speeds, faster boot times, and reduced application load times compared to HDDs.

In my previous system (Intel 8700K), I had a similar but not identical storage set-up (SATA SSD for boot drive instead of NVMe) and did not have this issue.

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