$375 or Best Offer Sandisk CloudSpeed Eco 960GB

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Patrick

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Nice find. I actually got another Cloudspeed Ascend 800GB today that was ~$350. I do like these drives.

You can see the cloudspeed 800GB drive reviewed earlier compared to some other offerings in the SanDisk Optimus Ascend 800GB benchmarks here
 

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FYI. I came across an interesting article on ScanDisk Cloudspeed series: it appears 'Ascend' has greater endurance (1,752 PBW) compared with 'Eco' (1.051 PBW):

SanDisk offers Cloudspeed flash options for pockets deep and shallow • The Register
Yea the Eco is more of a read optimized drive.
SanDisk has the Eco -> Ascend -> Ultra for the CloudSpeed line (SATA).

The SAS line (Optimus) has MAX -> Eco -> Ascend -> Ultra -> Extreme. The Extreme is a 45DWPD/ 5yr solution. The MAX while it is only 0.5 DWPD, is also a 4TB SSD.
 

Boddy

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Yea the Eco is more of a read optimized drive.
SanDisk has the Eco -> Ascend -> Ultra for the CloudSpeed line (SATA).

The SAS line (Optimus) has MAX -> Eco -> Ascend -> Ultra -> Extreme. The Extreme is a 45DWPD/ 5yr solution. The MAX while it is only 0.5 DWPD, is also a 4TB SSD.
Ahh! I get it now, if you wanting more write intensive, go for endurance and more read intensive drives are optimized as such, with less endurance. :)
 

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Ahh! I get it now, if you wanting more write intensive, go for endurance and more read intensive drives are optimized as such, with less endurance. :)
Yes. It is a total misconception BTW that all server workloads require high endurance. There are many applications where you are writing much data once then just reading from it. I have a small analytics cluster that has a dataset that changes maybe 2-10% per week. There is no way it is even close to a full disk write per day. Likewise, the web servers the forums and main site are on, even with snapshotting VMs, has under 100GB/ week of writes.