What are SSD drives? How reliable are they? Is there any chance to recover deleted Data Recovery Services from SSD? What should I do if there are serious problems with the drive and is it possible to remove at least the most important files? How not to lose everything if the SSD is damaged?
Are SSDs the storage media of the future?
Once on the market, solid-state drives promised to be a sensation. They seemed to be exactly what everyone had been waiting for – an exceptionally fast and productive, yet reliable, virtually trouble-free storage medium.
However, during testing it turned out that increased reliability is typical for them only during the first time of operation. The logic is simple: fewer parts – less mechanical damage. But going forward, SSDs show almost the same susceptibility to errors, performance problems, and even failures as hard drives.
Still, SSDs are becoming an option in many situations. The devices are compact and convenient for Youtube data storage, which solves the problem of physical limitations in the assembly of equipment. SSDs are also characterized by high read and write speeds and are often replacing HDDs with high speed circuits.
Let’s highlight the main advantages of solid state drives:
- reduced access time to data on an SSD compared to an HDD: data is available at any time, almost instantly;
- the speed of reading and writing does not depend on the synchronization of mechanical parts;
- increased resistance to physical vibrations, shocks, extreme temperatures;
- low susceptibility to magnetic fields that can destroy data on the HDD.
A fast and abrupt failure of a solid state drive is possible only in the event of a manufacturing defect or serious damage to the drive. In other cases, wear occurs linearly, and it is proportional to the load on the disk. That is, a new SSD is always more reliable than a long-used one.
In particular, the stability of the device depends on the number of read-write cycles used, which is initially limited by manufacturing characteristics. But the inherent endurance of the device is quite enough for uninterrupted operation for more than ten years, even if up to 100 GB of data is written to disk daily.