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Re:Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Enduranc... by pdimitar on Sunday February 02, 2025 @06:06PM (#42912823)
Yeah, I have 2 such from AliE and they perform well and haven't lost anything yet even though they have dozens of thousands of files at rest that are updated 1-2 times a month, for almost 3 years now. Quite pleased with them.

They are indeed more expensive but nothing that a programmer salary would notice even if you bought 10 of them. I am wondering whether I should buy another pair and use it as a metadata mirrored vdev on my media NAS. Haven't decided yet.

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Re:Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Enduranc... by dehrmann on Sunday February 02, 2025 @07:12PM (#42913288)
> I am wondering whether I should buy another pair and use it as a metadata mirrored vdev on my media NAS. Haven't decided yet.

Probably not worth the operational overhead, and in the past, I remember USB having significantly worse write latency than SATA.

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Re:Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Enduranc... by pdimitar on Sunday February 02, 2025 @08:00PM (#42913696)
Yeah, thought the same. Not to mention that I tried to have a bunch of old USB sticks put into one of my servers and it added like two minutes to its reboot time. (Though admittedly I didn't fight hard with systemd to make sure their mounting does not block anything -- it's likely possible to do.)

Ultimately I am not willing to shell out hundreds of EUR for f.ex. 2x SLC internal SSDs at 32 or 64 GB each so I guess I'll just have a few spare disks around when I am back to being employed, and that's going to be that.

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