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vvval

vvval March 15, 2025, 4:36 p.m.

Enterprise Storage Upgrade - need help choosing best enterprise ssd

Running into serious performance bottlenecks with our current storage setup and finally got budget approved for enterprise-grade SSDs. We're a mid-sized financial services company with about 200 employees running multiple database workloads and VDI environments.

Current setup is mix of aging Dell PowerEdge servers with traditional HDDs in RAID10, and they're struggling to keep up during peak trading hours. Database queries timing out, VMs lagging, the works.

Need guidance on best enterprise ssd options that can handle high write endurance and consistent IOPS. Planning to purchase 20-30 drives initially. IT team pushing for NVMe while finance wants to save with SATA. Not sure which vendors deliver best reliability these days.

Top priorities are endurance, consistent performance under load, and something with decent warranty. Bonus points if anyone has actual failure rate data beyond vendor marketing claims!

Noryhywog

Noryhywog March 15, 2025, 10:56 p.m.

don't even LOOK at consumer drives with enterprise workloads... watched helpdesk team learn this lesson hard way when they "saved money" then spent entire weekend restoring from backups after 8mo premature failure

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banker

banker March 16, 2025, 12:12 p.m.

Finance "saving money" on storage always costs more in long run. 30min system downtime probably exceeds entire price difference between enterprise/consumer drives. Print TCO analysis, hand to finance, end discussion

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dosjk

dosjk March 17, 2025, 4:07 p.m.

Financial sector = compliance headaches. Check if your regulations require drives support secure erase/crypto erase for decommissioning. Learned this $43k lesson at previous bank job

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africa

africa March 17, 2025, 9:24 p.m.

Deployed WD 2TB Red SA500 in similar environment last quarter. Solid mid-tier option if budget tight but beware - sustained write performance dips noticeably under heavy concurrent workloads. Kinda expected at that price point tho

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DiorFB

DiorFB March 18, 2025, 5:59 p.m.

NVMe worth every penny for database workloads. Latency difference transformed our organization - quarterly reports that took 3hrs now complete in 17min. Users thought we replaced entire infrastructure when we just swapped storage

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knj

knj March 19, 2025, 1 a.m.

hard numbers talk. benchmark current setup vs proposed then present actual business efficiency metrics to stubborn finance folks

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koz

koz March 20, 2025, 11:05 p.m.

Run IDENTICAL drives in all slots or face mysterious performance dips that'll take weeks to diagnose. Mixing enterprise drive models became my personal IT Vietnam

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14 March 22, 2025, 12:01 a.m.

tracked 4 critical metrics across 15 drive models under simulated db load:

1) avg latency @ 70% capacity

2) p99 outliers under load

3) 24hr sustained write degradation

4) power loss recovery times

results almost never matched vendor claims. dm if you want raw test data

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demodern

demodern March 23, 2025, 2:02 a.m.

Painfully accurate... Switched drives after extensive testing then discovered our ERP system used completely different I/O pattern than test suite. Performance barely improved despite $18k investment

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