Most heavy data users can’t wait for the day when hard disks, with their fragile, spinny parts, are put out to pasture for good. But just how much better are SSDs? Despite any horror stories you may have heard, the answer is a lot, according to tests on recent models by The Tech Report. It forced six drives – including Kingston’s HyperX 3K, Samsung’s 840 Pro and Intel’s 335 series – to continuously write and rewrite 10GB of small and large files. Four drives bit the dust prior to hitting the petabyte mark, often after their SMART systems moved thousands of bytes from failing flash sectors.
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