Both solid state drive (SSD) and hard disk drive (HDD) can get damaged in case of power failures, no matter power surge or outage. However, in comparison, SSD can get corrupted much more easily than HDD. Now, this article will tell you why.
Due to better performance of Solid state drive (SSD), it has earned a lot of kudos from both individuals and businesses. Yet, like traditional hard disk drive (HDD), it’s still prone to corruption for various factors, such as power failures. It’s always suggested to take care of our drives, protecting it against suffering sudden power failures since it can cause serious data loss, like corrupt Outlook data, especially for SSD.
Even though SSD can look after itself and its data when it’s powered up and it is nonvolatile, abruptly getting from power-on to power-off status still can put all the chips in the SSD into serious dangers. Moreover, in contrast to HDD, SSD is far more vulnerable to sudden loss of power. Thereinafter, we will look at this issue and expose 3 main reasons to you.
SSD Works Much More Complexly
Solid state drive is able to perform higher read/write intensive activities than the hard disk drive. Also, SSD has many more internal functions which are lacked on a HDD. Actually, in many SSDs, the complexity of the internal data management is similar to that in a traditional RAID system. Therefore, SSD is always much more complex than HDD. Hence, if power suddenly goes down, more things in SSD will go wrongs than in HDD.
SSD Rely More on Power Supply
As we all know, unlike the HDD, which is mechanical and magnetic, SSD is totally made up of electronics. There are far more distributed storage elements in a SSD than a HDD. A SSD can contain thousands of flash chips. All of its components are virtually working depending on the power supply.
More Field Experience about HDD
When it comes to data storage, HDD, undoubtedly, has taken up this industry for much longer time than SSD. Hard drive appears far earlier than solid state drive. Thereby, it refers to that there more researches and experience about HDD than SSD. Also, the hard drive architecture is nearly settled, not changed much. Thus, the power management system in hard drive has been advanced. But, in contrast, SSD architecture is constantly changing and evolving. At the same time, it means that SSD power management system is also changed continuously and deficient. In a nutshell, experience for SSD is still limited. Repairing the SSD that is subject to power failures is also more difficult than HDD.
Author Introduction:
Shirley Zhang is a data recovery expert in DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including recover sql and outlook repair software products. For more information visit www.datanumen.com