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<blockquote data-quote="DEyncourt" data-source="post: 1928125" data-attributes="member: 416097">Backblaze? Here is their 2022 review of nearly a quarter million hard drives which was released on January 31, 2023:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/[/URL]although this report is exclusively hard drives.They also issue a separate SSD report. Here is their &quot;2022 Midyear Report&quot; of 2,558 SSDs which was released on September 13, 2022:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-drive-stats-mid-2022-review/[/URL]Some cautions:- because of the price differences, there are still few SSDs overall. Backblaze basically has been replacing its boot drives as hard drives failures were replaced by SSDs. In fact in this report there were only THREE SSDs which were 2 TBs (out of 2,558), with the rest being 500 GBs or smaller, and 2,077 of them being around 250 GBs.- as far as I hsve seen, there are no (or at least very few) SSDs larger than 4 TBs, and a 4 TB SSD is pricey at around $500 (or ≈12.5 cents per GB) compared to $250 for an 18 TB hard drive (or ≈1.39 cents per GB). I have taken example prices from Other World Computing.- still, you might consider the last chart on Backblaze's SSD report. In this they compared the lifetime AFR of hard drives to that of SSD. While they seemed to have run somewhat parallel over the first 4 years (with an offset of ~0.8% in favor of SSDs), in year 5 the offset jumped up to 2.6% because of the much greater number of failures for hard drives compared to SSDs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEyncourt, post: 1928125, member: 416097"] Backblaze? Here is their 2022 review of nearly a quarter million hard drives which was released on January 31, 2023: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2022/[/URL] although this report is exclusively hard drives. They also issue a separate SSD report. Here is their "2022 Midyear Report" of 2,558 SSDs which was released on September 13, 2022: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-drive-stats-mid-2022-review/[/URL] Some cautions: - because of the price differences, there are still few SSDs overall. Backblaze basically has been replacing its boot drives as hard drives failures were replaced by SSDs. In fact in this report there were only THREE SSDs which were 2 TBs (out of 2,558), with the rest being 500 GBs or smaller, and 2,077 of them being around 250 GBs. - as far as I hsve seen, there are no (or at least very few) SSDs larger than 4 TBs, and a 4 TB SSD is pricey at around $500 (or ≈12.5 cents per GB) compared to $250 for an 18 TB hard drive (or ≈1.39 cents per GB). I have taken example prices from Other World Computing. - still, you might consider the last chart on Backblaze's SSD report. In this they compared the lifetime AFR of hard drives to that of SSD. While they seemed to have run somewhat parallel over the first 4 years (with an offset of ~0.8% in favor of SSDs), in year 5 the offset jumped up to 2.6% because of the much greater number of failures for hard drives compared to SSDs. [/QUOTE]

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