Given that the vast majority of datacenter drives see actual usage that is far less than the manufactures rating. Used enterprise SSDs: Dissecting our production SSD population Is dwpd becoming a useless metric? Unless you are buying a drive for an application that you know will actually be write really write intensive (in which case you should be looking at lower latency pcie options anyway), endurance ratings may become one of those unimportant specs in computer tech? Not quite as meaningless as the contrast ratio of a monitor, but far less important than other things like performance specs.
I'd be willing to wager that 99% of these sata drives are going into places where 10-15k spindles were a few years ago. So, assuming a 5 year replacement cycle, why is write endurance even marginally important?
I'd be willing to wager that 99% of these sata drives are going into places where 10-15k spindles were a few years ago. So, assuming a 5 year replacement cycle, why is write endurance even marginally important?