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Western Digital VS Seagate VS Intel Enterprise SSD

Vulcanrvn90
By Vulcanrvn90
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Hello,

 

I'm currently building a VM/Nas server with eight 16 terabyte Western Digital DC hard drives. And I'm trying to decide on what type of SSD's to get that will act as a cache and hot storage device. I've done a fair bit of research on Intel's Enterprise ssds and for the price point I really like them. Before I decided for sure though I wanted to see if anyone has any experience with the Datacenter nvme SSD for either Seagate Western Digital or Samsung.

 

Thanks 

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Intel DC SSD's are basically the gold standard for endurance.  For a cache drive though you can probably use about anything because if the drive fails it's not going to cause data loss.  Nowadays I also feel there isn't much difference between SSD drives that aren't at the very bottom end. Everyone using the same set of a few different controllers paired with a few different nand options.  

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Intel data center SSDs are flat out the best Ive ever used in terms of reliability. All my on prem servers and critical workstations use them. Big reason they are sought after used for crypto mining. 

 

 A lot of SAN vendors just use consumer SSDs for second tier cache. Saves a few bucks, and not that big a deal given its not primary storage. 

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