Backblaze Reveals 2022 SSD Life Expectancy Statistics: Temperatures Are Potential Factor

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Backblaze has revealed the newest storage drive stats report for 2022, with a singular focus on SSDs that the company utilizes for data storage boot drives within their cloud storage systems.

The last report from Backblaze informed its clients and the public about the hard disk drives that maintain customer data on its platform. The company utilized SSDs for boot drive purposes in the last quarter of 2018 and has supported them since. In that aspect, the use of HDD has diminished, and we are seeing a trend of more SSDs as boot drives by Backblaze. The company mentions that outside of booting storage servers, the SSDs "read, write, and delete log and temporary files" from the server as they are produced.

The data compiled by Backblaze covers last year's and three years' worth of data and lifetime stats of the SSDs incorporated. The company also introduces into their newest report temperature levels over the last year. This area was not presented before in previous reports and offers a look at the differences between the HDDs and SSDs temperatures to see if the SSDs that are utilized run at a lower temperature than the HDDs currently in use in the same functionality. As well known, temperature is a considerable aspect of the life expectancy of system storage and other components such as processors, graphics cards, motherboards, and more.

At the end of 2022, Backblaze incorporated 2,906 SSDs for boot drives in its data storage servers with 13 distinct models. The drives were considered "consumer-grade" compared to those utilized explicitly for server use or considered "enterprise-grade." Consumer-grade SSDs allow companies to alleviate overhead costs by purchasing less expensive equipment, such as solid-state drives. It will