yeah enterprise endurance is pretty nice if you need it. i recently stumbled into an old used 3TB SAS drive rated at 3DWPD. So the rated endurance is around 16PB? And I checked the usage and smartctl says it's only been used for about 15TB. So I can probably use the drive until the heat death of the universe.The worst wear was about 7.5TB. That's about "6 days of wear" when the drive is rated at 1.3 DWPD. So as close to "new" as you're likely to get.
stuff comes down in price a bit more...which it seems to be doing.
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