The Life and Death of SSDs and HDDs: Similarities, Differences, and Prediction Models · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2012.12373/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTThe Life and Death of SSDs and HDDs: Similarities, Differences, and Prediction Models — mentioned by strogonoffhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27077010urn:hackerpapers:mention:2012.12373:27077010Fri, 07 May 2021 15:33:56 GMT<p>An SSD may be more reliable than an HDD, but when a drive does fail during normal operation[0] it appears that data recovery is usually significantly more feasible/cheaper with an HDD. I’d be glad to be proven wrong. See also Google’s paper[1]. It doesn’t seem to be especially black-and-white. [0] This excludes cases such as e.g. dropping an HDD during operation and ruining large plate areas, of course. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12373.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2012.12373/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.LG