storage question

[kidlat017]

I hear SSDs are notorious for dying quickly if you write a lot in it. and yes I'm gonna write a lot in it, perhaps more than 10gbs per day on a daily basis. I'm gonna use it for what's called writeback. what is that? well its a long explanation but to put it simply client computers are gonna use this storage as a "scratch paper" via LAN network every time someone opens up said client pc (running diskless). the scratch paper is then discarded whenever it shuts down or restarts. kind of like deepfreeze 2.0.

 

if not I'm probably gonna cheapen out on just a 250gb hdd purely for writeback.

[Hairless Monkey]

The title is "storage question", but the only question you asked, "what is that?", was rhetorical and answered by yourself.

 

So did you have a storage question or what?

[TheEpicDuck]

It depends on the type of flash used and the size of the drive. A Samsung 860 EVO offers 150 TBW so even that would last a loooong time (something like 41 years at 10 gb per day)

[Falcon1986]

17 minutes ago, kidlat017 said:

I hear SSDs are notorious for dying quickly if you write a lot in it. and yes I'm gonna write a lot in it, perhaps more than 10gbs per day on a daily basis. I'm gonna use it for what's called writeback. what is that? well its a long explanation but to put it simply client computers are gonna use this storage as a "scratch paper" via LAN network every time someone opens up said client pc (running diskless). the scratch paper is then discarded whenever it shuts down or restarts. kind of like deepfreeze 2.0.

 

if not I'm probably gonna cheapen out on just a 250gb hdd purely for writeback.

Should probably look into enterprise-grade SSDs for endurance.

[SorryBella]

23 minutes ago, kidlat017 said:

I hear SSDs are notorious for dying quickly if you write a lot in it. and yes I'm gonna write a lot in it, perhaps more than 10gbs per day on a daily basis.

Get TLC based SSD then, but i think thats quite a normal write cycle imho.

[Freakwise]

I know it is hard to find but used enterprise grade ssd with mlc or even slc (if that still a thing) is probably the best

[kidlat017]

all answers are pointing at one thing and that is get enterprise-grade or higher.

 

welp I guess that's that. gonna pick a random answered question.