Enterprise Storage Upgrade - need help choosing best enterprise ssd

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lasted 9 months as storage vendor sales engineer before quitting. Insider tip: those "reliability ratings" based on cherry-picked controlled tests that simulate nothing like actual production workloads. All while customer support scripts literally tell us to blame "environmental factors" first

Swapped 140 drives to Intel D3-S4510 across four datacenters last year. Rock solid with insanely consistent latency even under 90% capacity. Initial cost felt painful but zero failures + performance stability worth every penny

Went full NVMe on critical systems, kept ancient SANs for backups. Saved $$$. Nobody notices storage until it breaks, then everyone screams. Spend where it matters, cheap out on the rest. 8yrs zero major incidents with this philosophy

bro skip manufacturer supplied firmware. grab latest updates direct from manufacturers before deployment. discovered critical bug AFTER installing 84 drives... unscheduled maintenance weekend fixing what updated firmware would've prevented

Enterprise drives seriously overpriced for what they deliver. Consumer drives in proper redundant configuration provide 90% performance at 50% cost. Fight me

One factor everyone overlooks: write amplification effect on flash memory cells in high-transaction environments. Dramatically affects drive lifespan beyond stated endurance ratings when workloads have high update frequency