Solid State Drive SSD VS Hard Disk Drive HDD life Expectancy

My old segate HDD lasted for 10 years and still working everything is good in smart check but making more noise now. And seagate external hdd lasted only a year without any major use. Now i am using wd sn 570 as main boot drive hope it last long.

How do they play games on ssd drives . Cds ??

As a hidden external disk drive: HDD is immortal (HDD>SSD)
As a used disk drive: (SSD>HDD)

I plan to archive few TB of movies and music, I am looking for something that lasts like 10+ years, it would be very rarely connected to anything, true secondary backup in a box i a basement. I guess HDD? Or maybe blue rays? Tapes seems to be too temperature sensitive.

Nah i don't believe on that...my SSD was already 10 years old and still functional.
People are just forcing you spend a new one.

My hdd seagate barakuda for 13 years died now . Im planning to buy ssd ill try my luck.

My SSD failed after 2 years
My HDD is running after 9 of abusive use

Correction. An SSD is faster if you're using a newer USB port. Also, I've read hundreds of comments on this topic on dozens of websites. The consensus seems to be that the longevity of any type of drive...and particularly an HDD...is dependent on both the company that makes it, and pure dumb luck. However, the tendency for HDDs to fail is alarmingly high when you look at it as a percentage. When, for example, you produce 100 HDDs, and roughly eleven of them don't last a couple of years at least, then you have a production quality problem. That seems to be the case in nearly all of the comments I have read. In my case, I have owned twenty HDDs and I have seen several of them conk out in less than two years. I also have seen them last for more than seven years. I own two SSDs, one for almost two years, and I have not had any trouble yet. As far as the "running cooler" aspect, the SSD claim is misleading. Try moving data from one drive to an SSD or vice-versa. Watch the SSD heat up quickly, while the HDD stays relatively cool throughout. The SSD, however, is designed to withstand higher temperatures if I understand correctly.

If a SSD fail during its lifetime you lost your data! I always like backing up my data on physical disc like dvds. Have a question....if you were to apply a very strong magnetic magnet onto of a SSD, would that damage it? Would the data be lost?

MY question is this since a ssd is so much lighter and do not have as much components in them WHY the HELL are they so Damn costly. and little storage on them.. ? Answer THAT ...

I saw my bro gaming PC SSD died suddenly and it was only 4yrs old. I have a decent enough Laptop from 2016 with a 1TB HDD that has been through hell from intensive usage with architectural rendering software, video editing and gaming still kicking to this day with no issues. I even have a HDD from Windows Xp days still kicking.

SSDs are nice and fast but their finite write cycles, and u having to be cautious how u use them, with software to constantly monitoring their health, and having to be careful to not full them up and leave space on them, and worrying about not writing to it too often is kinda off putting for me.

To me from my limited experience HDDs are more durable and long lasting than SSDs imo. SSDs put through intensive usage will die a lot quicker than regular HDDs.

I will stick with mechanical WD Black for my main machine. I have seen too many SSD pop in less than 3 years. Also, I don't believe what the Vendors say anymore, they have lied too many times to be trusted. They are pushing SSD because they are cheaper to make also.

Probably neither can work for a century or something you keep as archiving

I have two samsung evo ssds that are still rocksolid after 8 years of usage.

I had a HDDs... Seagate failed at around 5 yrs, Transcend at about 10yrs still working now.

As long as you regularly backup, doesnt matter which you use

I have 10 hard drives that been power on and using for 11 years.

Right now there is limited information on the difference but I work IT. I have done a plethora of studying on HD vs SSD as I used to be a consumer/business hardware specialist. So on average a generic SSD will last between 15-20 years (Yes seriously.) and hard disk drives (Non-hybrid HD/SSD.) is about 3-7 years. This depends as RPM, cache, and redundancies can vary greatly but it is indeed an average about 5 years. A hybrid hard drive however will last between 10-12 years and I can confirm as I have a Seagate Hybrid Hardrive 7200 RPM 2gig SSD built into the cache and its well over 10 years old and still runs in optimal condition. It does NOT have a built in SMART so I have no idea how much longer lifespan it has. Probably not much longer, 3-4 years at most. A Hybrid Hard Drive will last exponentially longer because that built in SSD will take a tremendous load off the read/writes. Especially IOPS. (Massive amounts of small data being read/write. This is where SSDs excel as IOPS cause the greatest wear on the disks.) However, back when I bought it the Hybrid Hard Drive was a relatively new concept (Before SSDs were even cheap.) and it cost me about 280$. However, it has out lasted literally every Hard Drive I ever owned, well over 5 of them. It certainly paid for itself by now. I even ran a Hard Drive sector test and amazingly it shows its still in excellent condition. So it may last another 10 years. Who knows? Without SMART there is no way to know for sure.

The only thing you are wrong about is the SSD. The average fail time for an SSD is not even close to 10 years unless you are referring to extremely cheap ones with no cache or redundancies but even the generic of generic SSD's last a good 15 years. This doesn't count Samsung SSDs which use a special cache system that improves the lifespan to 30-40 years (Yes seriously.)

Not to even get into NVME which my Samsung 980 pro has a lifespan of OVER 100 fucking years of heavy use. (Look it up, LOOK IT UP.) And I believe it. The drive will likely last my entire lifetime.

A good example from personal experience is my Samsung 860 Evo that I have used since it was released and its experienced HEAVY use. I have had it for 8 years. At the time it was about 250$. Now this drive has a built in SMART system that is extremely accurate at detecting damages in its NAND and estimating its life span. Running Samsung Magician to this day it says I have 25 years left on the device and its only got about 5% of damages in its NAND sectors. Now keep in mind the drive can run optimally with up to a massive 20% damages in its NAND sectors before it encounters issues. After 20% you can expect it to fail within a few years. Sadly, the more damages to the NAND sectors, the less space you can allocate to the drive. I do leave 10% of sectors unallocated due to this. In other words, you lose access to space of the drive as it gets older but you wont notice this until after about 15 years of heavy use.

So keep in mind after 8 whole years (Going on 9 now.) it has only went through 1/4 of its lifespan. That means it has about 24 years left before it fails. This confirms Samsung Magicians own estimate of 25 years. SSDs are without a singular doubt in my mind a better value over Hard Drives both short and long term. Its not even a question anymore, its multiplicative better and there is NO situations where Hard Drives are better. Even data centers no longer use them due to the heat, electricity, and error rates they tend to generate.

I still have seagate 250gb hdd for more than 15 years , even though I’ve upgraded my pc I’m using it in my new pc for extra storage

Had 2 Kingston ssd's, 120 and 480GB, both failed after exactly one year, I'm heading back for my old and slow, but reliable 2TB WD

SSD has tbw so it has life span depends on how you use it

They last longer, just make sure they have DRAM or are NVMe.

I think it also depends on the brand. I've had Western Digital Drives always outlast ones I had from Seagate. HGST also puts out some good drives that I still have running well. For me the mechanical drives that failed me the most were from Seagate. I've only had one SSD fail on me and that was from PNY.

Very Nice Bro Keep It Up

The next question... which format will still be usable (and readable) if you let them sit for 5 years with your backup data on them (not plugged in.)

In the 15 years I have been working on PCs I have had to replace a handful of hard drives...but not ONE SSD

I've had far, far more spinning drives fail than SSDs. Went through a spate of bad 80GB WD drives that all failed. Those drives were paired up with an identical twin as a RAID setup. All of them failed. I learned from that to always have a backup process and make sure it works. Also had plenty of Seagate, Fujitsu, Samsung mechanical drives and others fail. Also had some last for over a decade. I've got stacks of old working 3.5 hard drives. Slow. But they work. On the SSD side, I have owned or still own over a dozen of them and only ever had TWO issues. One was DOA and got replaced immediately, no issues. The other one was flaky from day one and stayed that way. It still works but cannot be trusted. Between Samsung, Crucial, Hynix, Sandisk, and Inland, I have never had an SSD die and take data with it. Hope I never do. But I have backups.

Personally I would use a SSD for the boot drive but I still prefer HDD for storage. I guess like anything else it depends on the manufacturing.
Every now and then a defect gets through, whether it be a car part, motherboard, SSD, HDD, RAM, appliances and so on. It happens. However when a SSD fails, it can fail suddenly without warning.

That is why you backup, backup, backup! If you can always keep a spare drive available. Preferably cloned with your OS. As so to make transition smooth and easy in shorter time.

SSDs all the way. Best upgrade I have ever invested in.

had mechanical 1tb toshiba on my lenovo ideapad 510 lasted 3 years then failed now have 1tb ssd 2.5 icoolax drive

I fully agree, I have about 5 years of Freenas/Truenas constant use, I have replaced many 5TB spinning drives over the years and all SSDs still going strong.
Thanks for the video

ive been lucky i never had a ssd fail for most part though i had the sata and power connector snap on one about 12 years ago and i had a few where stopped being detected and bending the pcb gently both ways made them work again and weird thing is still work to this day after 10 or so years. only had 2 of them drop in health one at 98% about roughly 8 years ago and old Kingston at 99% 2 weeks ago so long as decently built they can last and some of these are pushing past their nand ratings of 20 to 30TB in writes now. as for hdd ive been lucky in that area only had maybe 8 failures in past 22 years and some of them being over 12 to 15 years old with 50 to 100k hours on em of course not really in use anymore but if or when its for non critical storage/testing vintage builds for fun.

Microsoft wants PCs to come with SSD boot drives