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The most scary thing about using consumer grade SSD's in a file server is the amount of writes you do. For many use cases this is fine.



Very true. The slack reserve space, RAM buffer (and/or battery), and NAND process are the main things that make an enterprise drive.

The author doesn't specify a metric for writes, but based on the MX300 specs that I find, it can go up to 219 GB/day for the 2TB drives he uses, or 87 GB/day for a couple of the 525GB he still had. He doesn't specify though.




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