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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
by 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.