The best in many ways is the Samsung EVO / Pro line, in performance and wear. It's kind of like "buying Intel", if Intel had a lower price than an inferior but more expensive competitor.
On Aug 3, 2016 10:53 PM, "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem I saw last time I dug into this (almost 3 years ago now that I > think about it!) was that it wasn't obvious which SSD's were made with > which technology unless you forked over for "enterprise" SSD's. > > I put an 8GB enterprise SSD into a server to speed up someone's busy > database and it ran for 6 years and still worked when the server was > replaced. In the meantime I saw two ~$100 SSD's fail in office computers. > I also saw somebody put an SSD into a DVR and had it fail in a matter of > months. > > It's possible "cheap" and "good" have come closer together in SSD's, but > last I knew you had to pay 2-3x more for "good". > > > Other than price, which will be more reliable over the long haul? > > Ever since I first used a flash chip back in the early 2000s the worry > about wearing out the storage elements has always been on my mind. But > with the wear leveling techniques built into SSDs and the increase in > storage cell robustness, that may not be a legit fear any more. You still > have ESD failure modes but that would apply to rotating disks. You can put > the disks from a failed drive into a good drive and recover from a disaster > sometimes. But other than that, it would seem to me that the rotating > media is more likely to fail. > > *From:* Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 03, 2016 12:06 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Rotating Media > > Large scale backup storage? > > I can build a server with 40 * 8TB 3.5" HGST spinning 7200 rpm drives, > divided up into several Linux mdadm RAID6 arrays with hotspares, for > considerably less money than the same capacity built out of 1TB 2.5" SSDs. > > There is now a Samsung 15TB SSD that costs ten thousand dollars... > http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/8/1/12342696/samsung-pm1633a-ssd-15tb-storage-drive-specs-price > > > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there a good reason to continue to use rotating media going forward? >> > > > >
