The company actually refurbished part of its fleet of disks used to start servers in 2018, while SSD prices were dropping sharply. And this is where the analysis begins, with the reversal of older hard disks. So the numbers are considered considering the age of the products, but it will be interesting to see in a year or two the numbers for SSDs develop.
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Because right now, curves for hard disks and SSDs don’t start out quite the same way, with lower percentages. On the other hand, we can base ourselves on other characters to get a little idea.
The company thus compares 1666 SSDs for the second quarter of 2021 with an average of 14.2 months of HDD seniority, and 1,297 in the fourth quarter of 2017 with an average of 14.3 months of hard disk seniority, which remains pretty close. And for SSDs, the failure rate is 1.05% compared to 1.38% for HDDs. But like we said, we’ll have a bigger perspective in a few months, if not years.
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