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by trogdor 252 days ago
> Current enterprise SSDs have something like a 10000 TBW rating, which we'd exceed in the first month

Wow. What’s your use case?

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Same as the one earlier in the thread: Build servers, nicely loaded. A build generates a ridiculous amount of writes for stuff that just gets thrown out after the build.

We actually did try with SSDs about 15 years ago, and had a lot of dead SSDs in a very short time. After that we went for estimating data written, it's cheaper. While SSD durability increased a lot since then everything else got faster as well - so we'd have SSDs last a bit longer now (back then it was a weekly thing), but still nowhere near where it'd be a sensible thing to do.