News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:AMD's EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip by trogdor on Saturday October 04, 2025 @11:51AM (#45474194)
> Current enterprise SSDs have something like a 10000 TBW rating, which we'd exceed in the first month

Wow. What’s your use case?

Re:AMD's EPYC 9355P: Inside a 32 Core Zen 5 Server Chip by finaard on Saturday October 04, 2025 @12:54PM (#45474704)
Same as the one earlier in the thread: Build servers, nicely loaded. A build generates a ridiculous amount of writes for stuff that just gets thrown out after the build.

We actually did try with SSDs about 15 years ago, and had a lot of dead SSDs in a very short time. After that we went for estimating data written, it's cheaper. While SSD durability increased a lot since then everything else got faster as well - so we'd have SSDs last a bit longer now (back then it was a weekly thing), but still nowhere near where it'd be a sensible thing to do.