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Just curious (and I haven't really used any SSDs yet) if your drive failure experience is with consumer or "Enterprise" SSDs? I'd expect that the enterprise ver
by pivo 14y ago
Just curious (and I haven't really used any SSDs yet) if your drive failure experience is with consumer or "Enterprise" SSDs? I'd expect that the enterprise versions would be more resilient but I don't know.
- corin_ 14y agoThey key aspects for Enterprise drives (both disks and SSDs) are generally 1.) Performance and 2.) When you buy them they come from seperate batches (i.e. a single failure doesn't indicate more are likely to follow). Servers should basically be created to cope with drive failure in such a way that % of failure isn't an impact on "will this cause problems" but merely on working out the cost of using them.
- reeses 14y agoActually, the key difference with "enterprise" SSD is that they overprovision the drive to have a cell reserve. That's why you can buy a 512Go consumer drive or a 480Go enterprise drive. As cells get wonky, they are 'replaced' from the reserve.
- michaelcampbell 14y agoPurely as an anecdotal data point, I'm a developer so due to constant compiling and other side-effects of my position, I suspect I work my SSD's harder on the write side than average. Using consumer grade SSD's I haven't had any more failures than I did with platters.