Comments on: The SSD Edition: 2023 Drive Stats Mid-Year Review

By: Doug Piper

Doug Piper — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:54:57 +0000

Are there any tools to evaluate your SSD to know if you have increased chances of SSD drive failure?

By: Stephanie Doyle

Stephanie Doyle — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 10:57:55 +0000

In reply to moriel5. Thanks for flagging @moriel5 -- often with drives, manufacturers will use or sell OEM parts, and this is one of them. That said, I've updated the charts to reflect that they're Intel drives to avoid confusion.

By: moriel5

moriel5 — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:20:01 +0000

I noticed that the SSDSCKKB240GZR does not fit in with the Seagate model naming scheme, and searched it up, but could only find an Intel SSD by that model.

Could there be an editing mistake in the blog post?

By: Skørsdeg

Skørsdeg — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 14:58:14 +0000

In reply to Andy Klein. What "function" is that? Why can't you include drives that your customers use and repeatedly ask about?

By: Skørsdeg

Skørsdeg — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:31:34 +0000

I have subscribed to your storage service for nearly five years and have looked at your drive stats for much longer. But I admit: as a typical consumer I don’t know how to make use of those stats in a practical way.

Your recent SSD report, for example, includes five brands. But what about Samsung, Sabrent, Orico, and others? Do they actually use one of the models you measure, rebranding it as their own? If so, how do we know? And how do we know which model it really is?

And even if a retailer sells products from the brands you include, they seldom show the model numbers displayed in your reports.

It all makes shopping for home studio use complicated. Your advice is welcome.

By: kennel

kennel — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 05:37:43 +0000

In reply to OhFreeGames. I saw 10 drives of Samsung "SSD 850 EVO 1TB" in database. Unfortunate they went to fail. Why?

By: Thomas Davis

Thomas Davis — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 21:23:36 +0000

I own a computer service company and I must say the Western Digital 510 “Blue” SSD is the worst SSD drive family I have ever used. I started using them after WD discontinued the previous GEN. Many of the machines they were installed in have come back with either data corruption, bad sectors or speed equivalent to a Floppy drive. I have a pile of these unusable WD blue SA510 drives. I returned all the unopened ones in exchange for a different brand SATA SSD. I replaced these in customer computers at my cost. I no longer use Seagate products because of reliability issues from many of their 1.5, 2 and 3TB HDDs. Those cost me thousands of dollars in replacement costs.

By: kennel

kennel — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 08:45:14 +0000

Thank you for sharing excellent report. Are those SSDs all SATA model? No NVMe?

By: Mo

Mo — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:53:29 +0000

Thank you again for these reports. Does Backblaze have any plans to acquire and use increased-capacity SSDs, such as 4 and 8TB, or drives of other brands like Samsung or SK Hynix?