monthly check/scrub and your workload is used up already almost, does seem very Low.
Certainly make sense why the end customers and vendors essentially take support topic themselves and just replace them.
In a TCO and performance competition with SSD the only way drives make sense is is they are really cheap and that’s what’s happening here i think, they are just trying to keep the prices Low.
as a consumer just buy what’s cheapest , HC560 preferred and accept you may not get warranty in case of issues after the first year.
if for any reason the nand price drops a lot the HDD market is in trouble.
just wait till these drives start to do what HPE does with lifetime on ssd’s, the % life remaining is a straight calculation on the endurance. So for example I had a heap of 960gb RI drives that were ‘0% life remaining’ after 2 years but all they did was to write a few hundred gb file a few times a day for analysis, so less than half full drive and sequential, they were in actual fact probably 99% life remaining not 0% life remaining, could have just ignore the error but don’t want alerts So replace them. If such a thing was done on HDD’s it would be not very nice, especially ones with such Low endurance.
