> Do those ratings reflect actual tested durability or mainly marketing? They reflect what the manufacturers will offer the warranty until. A quick google sear

> Do those ratings reflect actual tested durability or mainly marketing? They reflect what the manufacturers will offer the warranty until. A quick google search suggests about 2 petabytes of writes is the max you can get on a samsung 850 before it completely fails (and after 1 petabyte you will have many failed sectors and data corruption starts creeping in) At the same time, I bought my S3710 used and when I got it, it had almost 8 petabytes written and it's still just like new. > Have there not been some relatively large providers using consumer SSDs in the datacenter successfully for some time? Yes, that wouldn't surprise me at all. Like I said, for many workloads, consumer SSDs are acceptable. But that doesn't mean enterprise drives are a scam.