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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+ :)

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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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