Consumer SSDs can absolutely be the right choice in some situations. Great for scrappy development environments or things that are refreshed regularly like runn

Consumer SSDs can absolutely be the right choice in some situations. Great for scrappy development environments or things that are refreshed regularly like running ETL migration runs. I'd advise underprovisioning them by 10% and keeping good (regular) backups though. Also being aware of the failure of two drives of the same age in RAID1 being common (same number of writes=similar failure time). A shame that CamelCamelCamel seem to be running on a bit of a shoestring budget as it's a very useful tool. To be fair to the recovery costs though the majority of them are from a professional data recovery company and that ain't cheap!