What SSDs should you use in your servers and why it matters

This video looks at how SSDs designed for consumer use differ from those aimed at enterprise use. It’s not unreasonable to assume that the 4TB drive in your PC or laptop is the same 4TB drive that you’d put in a server, but under the surface they are very different beasts - and for good reason.

Watch this video to learn the differences between enterprise SSDs and consumer SSDs so you know which drives to pick for your servers and why.

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[oanthatakealeboga]

She explained it better than any othe video on YouTube... Perfect and clear...

[anintrestedparty]

Came back and watched this again after seeing the best data center SSD video. They work really well together.

[avg_joe]

8:00 I was trying to decide if I should buy small sizes or large sizes. Makes sense now, for reducing rebuild time.

[chasekaleikilo]

Answered many questions of mine, thanks!

[parky]

Great video guys, the QLC vs TLC vs MLC vs SLC was particularly useful. Do you find the enterprise drives tend to have higher read/write throughput or is this commonly the same across both consumer and enterprise?

[dennisbusch]

Hey i got a small network server with some 1tb hdds that sound not that good and i got 2 1tb intenso ssds

How long will they last in the server
I usually use 200-300 gb of them

[johncollins]

I have a hold house solar system with the power grid as backup. So I would like to use SSDs!

[johnsmith-gyzu]

I was sad this morning, all i needed was a beautiful blonde girl talking about ssd, feeling better now

[syleishere]

I don't think you can justify the cost of enterprise SSD over consumer SSD based on fact servers run on UPS. Power protection is a moot point.

I'd focus more on writes and setting up a ZFS storage with many SSDs in a pass through scenario in a raid 0, then using rsync to copy data off it once a night to the rust bucket spinning mechanical drives offsite backup.

A better question would be is it more cost effective long term to get a cheap dell r710 used server and stack a ton of PCIe 3.0 drives in them, or just get a microtech motherboard with PCIe 5.0 and go all PCIe 5.0 nvme SSDs longterm

I think your most likely better off taking price difference between consumer and enterprise SSDs and putting that towards buying more SSDs so you have enough storage space for all your files, backups and database files.

Making sure server never goes offline should always be first priority. Colocation with backup generators, or at home you can go UPS. Your probably better off at home getting an inverter, lifepov4 280ah batteries from China with 6000 cycles and some solar panels though long-term.