Totally agree with you. I was just about to write the exact same thing. I've had problems with dell hardware, hardware raid controllers, and hundreds of ssds. T

Totally agree with you. I was just about to write the exact same thing. I've had problems with dell hardware, hardware raid controllers, and hundreds of ssds. The most stable systems I've worked on use lsi sas controllers, perhaps software raid, and Intel/crucial ssds in fault tolerant distributed systems. Therefore, I also question if it's etsy's tendency to use non distributed datastores, with less effective or complex fault tolerance makes ssd failure a bigger deal? Failure is inevitable, and should be expected at every level.