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Sources from within the OEM computer industry have reported that Microsoft may be planning to end HDD boot drive support by as early as next year!

Boot your PC with the USB drive as the primary storage, select the SSD when prompted, and follow the instructions on-screen. Is it OK to use SSD and HDD together?

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As the video (below) demonstrates, the SSD was able to finish booting and connect to a wireless network while the HDD model was still spinning its gear on the grey boot screen.

Microsoft has plans to do this by 2023, so we should expect the world of all-SSD PCs of the future by next year.

Failure Rates Over Time We have data for HDD boot drives that go back to 2013 and for SSD boot drives going back to 2018. The chart below is the lifetime AFR for each drive type through Q2 2021.