Yeah, my bet is that the rarity of writes (some metadata in the video project files) will give these drives plenty of longevity. For a use case like database t

Yeah, my bet is that the rarity of writes (some metadata in the video project files) will give these drives plenty of longevity. For a use case like database transactions, log storage and frequent data dumps, the game changes quite a bit. I would definitely shy away from the QVO drives for that use case. I've had these drives in service for about 8 months in my regular NAS, before transferring them to this new build, and they are all checking out okay still. But this is also why I'm doing the striped mirror plus a hot spare. The only real challenge would be if the drives have a firmware issue, and they all die at the same moment after like 4 years due to a bug (like how HN's servers died...).