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This can be replicated in consumer drives by underprovisioning.
by u02sgb 8y ago
This can be replicated in consumer drives by underprovisioning.
- mirimir 8y agoOK, fair point. Although I don't know enough about SSDs to know whether there's more to it. But what else is different?
- u02sgb 8y agoI think mainly warranty, although other posters are saying enterprise drives have capacitors to help with writing during power loss. I'd have thought a good battery backed raid controller would handle this but "enterprise"="belt and braces" so I can see why a lot of businesses pay the extra.
- mirimir 8y agoRight. Capacitors. Especially for write cache, I think. But yeah, battery-backed RAID plus UPS would be good enough for most, I guess.
- tinus_hn 8y agoSo the enterprise drives perform as specified and the consumer drives don’t?
- candiodari 8y agoIf you actually read the specification on consumer drives you'll see they're "guaranteed" for like 100 rewrites and you don't have any right to anything if they fail. Which should be a hint as to what's coming.
- u02sgb 8y agoSorry, late to reply! The warranty differences are things like with enterprise they'll send you a new one as soon as the SMART data suggests it's going to fail. Consumer is usually you post it back and they send you a new one.