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They've dropped enough that it's cheaper for us to purchase all 1TB SSDs to replace our 650GB 15K SAS disks in our SANs, after two years our drive failure rate has dropped by nearly 900% with a 5-40x performance gain depending on what you're measuring and the drives are about half the price of what the 15k SAS drives cost, to top it off our SANs used to run so hot you could barely touch the rear or the servers and now they're dead cold 24x7.

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How does something drop 900%? Did you mean it's not at 1/9 of what it used to be?

I think the poster meant -90%, so 1/10

I'm sorry and thank you, yes I did!

Yeah, but you're comparing SAS disks with server SSDs. I'm talking more about consumer grade SSDs. I feel like the price curve still starts at a quite high price point and cheap or medium laptops can't reach that point, except for very low storage capacities.

By the way, I'm talking about $800 laptops, not $1500+ :)

No I'm not, we use 'consumer grade' (which is kind of a bs marketing term if you do your homework to ensure you get a quality brand and model) ssds in our SANs, we run 960GB Sandisk Extreme Pros in our first Gen and Micron M600 or Crucial MX series in our second gen SANs, they perform great and we've had almost no failures over the past two years of hammering them. We do keep the firmware up to date which I think a lot of people are slack on. We tried some Samsung Pro SSDs in a POC and had major issues with their performance over time and several DOAs so we're lumping those in with other Samsung hardware quality and not going near them.

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