I disagree strongly. Writes are often just as important, there is no picking and choosing between read/write performance, both must be acceptable. And that's

I disagree strongly. Writes are often just as important, there is no picking and choosing between read/write performance, both must be acceptable. And that's true for both sequential and random I/O. If you ever have to ingest some large data set on any of these cheap SSDs you'll be in for an unwelcome surprise. And although outside the scope of my article, random write I/O performance is beyond terrible as soon as you're out of the SLC cache.