First Post! Okay, here it goes. I'm going to start moving regularly for my job so I sold my rack and got a VRTX to consolidate my lab into "mobile" infrastructure. Since moving involves a lot of vibration I wanted to stick to an SSD build only... but SSDs are expensive. A consumer SLC SSD runs for about $45 a terabyte vs enterprise SSDs which run around $100 a terabyte. But, since they're both SLC I should get similar write endurance! Just at much slower speeds.
My options are:
24 TB of consumer SLC SSD
12 TB of enterprise SSD
or ~40 TB of HDD storage (which I think will be the slowest of them all and I'm trying to avoid HDD).
If I cache on faster SSDs on the VRTX's blades I shouldn't see a huge difference (I think).
I've never worked much with SSDs however and I don't have a lot of real-world experience with them. What are your thoughts on using consumer SLC SSDs for NAS storage? Am I overlooking anything massive?
My options are:
24 TB of consumer SLC SSD
12 TB of enterprise SSD
or ~40 TB of HDD storage (which I think will be the slowest of them all and I'm trying to avoid HDD).
If I cache on faster SSDs on the VRTX's blades I shouldn't see a huge difference (I think).
I've never worked much with SSDs however and I don't have a lot of real-world experience with them. What are your thoughts on using consumer SLC SSDs for NAS storage? Am I overlooking anything massive?