On 12/26/2020 5:10 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 26/12/2020 à 21:58, Mark Woolfson a écrit : >> Don't go for super cheap SSD's as the write threshold will be low. I would >> look at Samsung for SSD's for performance or Kioxia (Toshiba) SSD's for >> price. As regards the carrier I would look at Sonnet or Highpoint. Bear in >> mind that the commercial sweet spot for SSD's is 1 or 2 TByte. > Thanks everybody for your feedback. > > Is there any data available regarding reliability of SATA vs. SSD ? The most reliable SATA drives model from most reliable manufacturer during constant up, spinning and used in RAIDs had about or less than 3% failed in a course of over 10 years. Most reliable manufacturer in my book that is: Hitachi, former IBM, later HGST, the production line now bought out by Western Digital. I doubt there is same longevity statistics for SSDs. Also: hard drives have theoretically infinite number of writes into the same area, whereas SSDs have finite number of write operations into a given cell. In view if this difference any comparison can be argued as unfair. I'm sure, people who have large number of SSDs for long time will add their observations. I was happy with Samsung 2.5 inch SATA SSDs so far. Valeri > Niki >