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Enterprise Hard Drive VS Consumer Hard Drive VS Enterprise SSD – Which Will Die First? (SSD Update)
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“45Drives”
Every second Tuesday, we will be releasing a tech tip video that will give users information on various topics relating to our Storinator storage servers.
This week, Doug and Brett are back to give an update on our “Which Drives Will Die First” testing. Guess what? The SSDs died…
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Would love to see a visual graphic
I really like the dynamic you guys have going and I truely mean this in a positive way – It's like "storage dad" and one of his "kids" – Brett is eager to get things going and Doug keeping the big overview. Generations see things in different ways and combined it leads to great tech. Big respect to a CEO who let's his employees break things to test the limits for the products and help innovate. Plus you taking your audience/customers along the way makes it feel like we're part of it.
This is constant write to fail. In a typical environment, you're not going to kill the SSD, in fact, you'll probably get upwards of 5-10 years or longer of writing to it and eons longer reading from it. You have to realize this test was with a single drive. Imagine multiple drives in a raid array or even ZFS, the SSD's will probably outlive you.
May also be cool to do single disk ZFS just to keep a real time watch on data integrity for SSDs, do a % write, read it, delete it, repeat.
Would also want to see a 50/50 or a 60/40 workload.
Would want to see something like a Samsung PM1643 SSD or a Koxia PM6/7
I had been disapointed by Segate Skyhawk 2TB in NVR writing 30Mbps 24/7 and it died in 2 years. It started clicking the head, no data available. Surprisingly it is 324GB a day and 118TB a year. So it writen 236TB and died.
I called it, SSDs just are not there yet. I have 20+ year old HDDs that are still going but in 5 years I've had to RMA 3 SSDs 1 Samsung, 1 WD, and 1 PNY.
I would do 2tb in each segment that way it's slightly balanced.
Helpful co text and observations as always!
Have quite a few concerns with your testing and comments. Which I am glad you kind of start addressing around the 11 minute mark.
The Micron 5400s are more like entry level to mid range enterprise flash drives, yes these Micron's and the Seagate Exos they are both SATA but that's really not a great relational measure for comparison. Given the size of the drives, the Microns would likely be OS boot disks, not a use case for the workload you're putting on them.
The biggest issue with the testing is if you want to compare lifespan is to throttle the benchmarks to a speed that is equal on HDD/SSD or NVMe like 200MB/s (something they can all do) on drives of equal size (which happy was brought up). If you're just all out full speed writing to flash then it's skewed is it not? For example of course the 7450 NVMe would fail faster than the 5400 SSD it's doing what, 8 or 9x the workload? Same idea for the SSD > HDD, might be closer on sequential but the SSD will be able to accomplish more work in the same time frame that they are both still running and alive. Flash is also going to generate a ton of heat at 100% workload so can't imagine that's really that helpful.
None of this isn't to say that the spinning disks wouldn't last longer, I've had great longevity out of spinning disks, but hardware decisions should be workload based, especially with storage and I'm not seeing that being emphasized in the video so I find the content a bit deceiving. The benchmarks that matter are really the ones based against manufacturer warranty and spec in combination with use case are they not?
If anyone else is curious about the first video in this test series from back in July, it is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkCM_DY-nwQ
You mention the spinning rust drives and how long it will take to get as many drive writes as the SSDs. But really, Seagate rates mechanical drives as a static data transfer rate per year (reads AND writes) no matter the size of the disk! This annual workload for enterprise drives is set to 550 TB per year for 5 years. For a 20 TB drive this means 137,5 full drive reads/writes.
WTF!? Are you clowns or what? Comparing 480GB SSD to 6TB Spinning HHD…..
Do they still even sell 500GB spinners anymore for the enterprise? I cant remember the last time I saw one for sell under 1TB.