Storage Solutions SSDs less likely to be affected by voltage fluctuations ?

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In areas where there are voltage fluctuations hard disks tend to fail sooner, at least that's what I've observed in my relative/friends PCs.

Does the same happen for SSDs ? (The SATA 2.5 type ones)

The HDD in one of my relatives PC is about to fail. I was wondering if I should recommend a SSD.
 
If it is just fluctuation, it should not directly affect components except the PSU. However, if the PSU itself is not reliable, the components may fail. In case of power loss, however, both HDD and SSD will get affected, i.e., data loss/corruption may occur.
 
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Fluctuations does affects any electronic devices. It depends how well it can withstand it. But sooner or later effects might start showing up. Occasionally its ok but this occasional itself depends from case to case person to person. Withstanding capacity also gets affected.
You relative is better off with a stabilizer and UPS>
 
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If by fluctuations you mean sudden drops of low voltage causing the pc to reboot unexpectedly then yeah, that would eventually kill hard disks. A cheap sub 2k UPS would help a lot in preventing this kind of damage. SSD's are more or less immune to this.

Newer, higher capacity hard drives have failsafes that prevent damage to the platters when power is cut.
 
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so lets break that down, IF your PSU is fine it can except some amount of variations in voltage, if there is freq power outage or large variations which lead the PC to shut down that can cause some HDD damage due heads not parked, this may not happen if its one off, this may happen if its a frequent event
i would shift your relatives to an SSD for a more simple reason, SPEED
even the most simple SSD sata drive is way way faster then an HDD and makes a world of diff in how the PC operates
Shift to an SSD now, and get a good UPS/stabiliser for the power issues
 
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OK. Thanks everyone. I'll explain this and let them decide.
Prob is they are non-techy casual users. 500GB SSD (Crucial MX500) is almost twice as costly a a 1TB HDD (WD EZEX).
Any reco for a 500GB 2.5 SSD cheaper than MX500 ?
 
Even if you get a 250 gb to boot from plus put your basic apps it would be more then enough
You could also get a second hand SSD here if anyone is selling
 
I had a PSU whose cooling fan broke. I didn't know notice it for a long time. It used to overheat and that caused DC voltages to fluctuate and out of all components, only HDD was the only one which got affected. I couldn't write data to HDD. SSD didn't have any issue.
 
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