I'm putting together a new ESXi build, and my plans were to go with 4 1TB Samsung 970's in a Highpoint SSD7101A in a RAID 0 config. Since drive performance is my limiting factor, I'm more concerned about performance than anything. I have adequate backups of all the VM's running so I'm aware of and accept the possibility of data loss. For my use case, it is about performance. I currently have a mix of 'Nix and Windows VMs, all the 'Nix machines are servers providing services such as wordpress, email, plex, etc. Two of the windows machines support users.
After reading this thread, it seems like I might be ahead (performance speaking) to change my plans to two of these drives instead of the Highpoint. The fact that it would be ~$600 cheaper is a nice plus, but from a pure performance standpoint in this use case (ESXi VMs), what say you?