Great video guys, the QLC vs TLC vs MLC vs SLC was particularly useful. Do you find the enterprise drives tend to have higher read/write throughput or is this commonly the same across both consumer and enterprise?
Thanks for the feedback and question. All things being equal, i.e. bus type, (M.2, U.2, SATA, SAS) and bus speed (the number of PCIe lanes) enterprise drives have much faster sustained read and write throughput. Consumer drives are built for burst rather than sustained performance so their performance drops off a cliff after a few seconds. The graph at 3:31 in the video shows this phenomena. - JG
Hey i got a small network server with some 1tb hdds that sound not that good and i got 2 1tb intenso ssds How long will they last in the server I usually use 200-300 gb of them
I don't think you can justify the cost of enterprise SSD over consumer SSD based on fact servers run on UPS. Power protection is a moot point. I'd focus more on writes and setting up a ZFS storage with many SSDs in a pass through scenario in a raid 0, then using rsync to copy data off it once a night to the rust bucket spinning mechanical drives offsite backup. A better question would be is it more cost effective long term to get a cheap dell r710 used server and stack a ton of PCIe 3.0 drives in them, or just get a microtech motherboard with PCIe 5.0 and go all PCIe 5.0 nvme SSDs longterm I think your most likely better off taking price difference between consumer and enterprise SSDs and putting that towards buying more SSDs so you have enough storage space for all your files, backups and database files. Making sure server never goes offline should always be first priority. Colocation with backup generators, or at home you can go UPS. Your probably better off at home getting an inverter, lifepov4 280ah batteries from China with 6000 cycles and some solar panels though long-term.
Thanks for the detailed feedback on the video and suggested storage configurations. We agree that power-loss protection is a secondary selling point for enterprise SSDs, which is why we put it towards the end of the video compared to more important factors, such as performance consistency and endurance. On the other hand, having that extra bit of peace of mind you get from power-loss protection can only be a good thing. It would be interesting to know how much it actually costs to implement in SSDs, but we haven't seen any data specifically on that. - JG
@@scanitsolutions For home server, I don't think would matter much. For datacenter or company, I'd probably go enterprise just for that piece of mind for sure. Company is abit different story as warranty plays a big factor with them if anything fails.
True enough, the biggest cost for most companies in situations like this is downtime rather than actual data loss as the data should be backed up somewhere else anyway regularly. - JG
