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Oh wow, yeah I see your point, that is indeed extremely misleading. I had always thought that enterprise SSDs used higher quality flash than consumer SSDs beca

Oh wow, yeah I see your point, that is indeed extremely misleading. I had always thought that enterprise SSDs used higher quality flash than consumer SSDs because of the higher endurance guarantees - that was why I bought them. Now I feel like a big reason to buy enterprise SSD has been removed. I am flabbergasted, to be honest. And I feel a bit cheated that I am paying much more for the same quality flash. So would it be fair to say that the only reason to pay for the enterprise SSD premium is the power loss protection and more reliable firmware?

wtallis 1y ago
Definitely don't think of enterprise vs consumer SSDs as good vs bad; they're optimizing for different use cases. Enterprise SSDs get you power loss protection and firmware QA aimed at server workloads and operating systems, and performance tuning prioritizing consistent sustained performance, and larger form factors with enabling higher capacity and higher power. Consumer SSDs get you higher peak performance (eg. SLC caching) and orders of magnitude better idle power savings and QA against Windows and its NVMe driver, in form factors suitable for laptops and not requiring direct airflow over the SSD. A very long time ago when the SSD market was still quite immature, there was a time period where "consumer" SSDs were little more than cut-down enterprise SSDs with inferior NAND and fewer features. But that changed well before NVMe showed up.