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		arnaudsm on April 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022) Early SSDs had poor reliability, but modern ones seem to be lasting longer than HDDs according to this BlackBlaze report : https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-drive-stats-mid-2022-revi...

gambiting on April 5, 2023 [–]

>>Early SSDs had poor reliability,

Yeah but it's not like they are all guaranteed to fail. I still use an OCZ Agility 3 in one of my PCs to this very day, it runs 24/7. And that was probably one of the worst "early" SSDs for failure rates.

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