In production we try to use only Intel, and have had good luck with them over the decades. I say "try" because Dell makes it hard to tell who makes the differe

In production we try to use only Intel, and have had good luck with them over the decades. I say "try" because Dell makes it hard to tell who makes the different drives, but sometimes you can track it down by the specs or part numbers. Our buying cycle a couple years ago we ended up with some "Toshiba THNSN81Q92CSE 1.92TB SATA eSSD" in two systems, and ran into some severe performance issues, system IO wait time going through the roof. Ended up spending significant time with Dell support, them identifying a couple drives in each box to replace, and also doing full "RAID chain" replacements (controller, cabling, backplane). All of the replacement drives we've gotten have been Intel 1.92TB, so maybe Dell is seeing problems with Toshiba? Since then the systems have been solid, so maybe it was part of the RAID chain. Aside: Decades ago, right when Intel was coming out with their SSDs, I had a consulting client that was a Rural ISP. Their NFS server was on 8x 10K WD hard drives in RAID-10. The continually struggled with performance, and we kept tuning, but would regularly just outrun the IOPS, mostly with e-mail access. A friend of mine happened to have a 600GB Intel SSD production sample, so I asked if I could borrow it for a few weeks. Sent this laptop SSD that would fit in the palm of my hand out to this client, had them hook it up to the NFS server, and then did "pvmove" from the RAID array over to the laptop drive. Steadily, over the next few hours, the performance issues were gone. It was pretty fantastic to see an 8 drive RAID array bested by a laptop form factor drive.