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 first!

Revisiting the project - back in July 2023 we started looking at the lifetime of consumer hard drives versus enterprise hard drives versus enterprise SSDs, when writing to them constantly over a long period of time. Which drives will die first? That's what we aim to answer in this ongoing experiment. After a few months of testing, we finally have an update.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:31 - Revisiting the Testing Method for Hard Drives vs SSDs
01:28 - Common Misconception of SSD Durability
02:17 - Timeline of Storage Media Endurance Testing
04:28 - What Data Measurement Software is Being Used? Grafana and Prometheus
05:30 - What Kind of SSD was used? Micron 5400 SATA 
06:35 - SSD Report - 9500 Drive Writes Sequentially
07:14 - SSD Report - 4,750TB Used / Rated for 1,300TB
08:30 - SSD Report - What Were The Write Speeds of the Micron 5400
09:05 - How Long with the Enterprise and Consumer Hard Drives Last?
13:04 - SATA vs NVMe - Difference in Lifetime
15:35 - Outro

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