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The market doesn't want products advertised this way. Setting up a 30TB SSD as a 10TB with 3X the endurance is an easily solvable issue in host software. But selling a 30TB as a 10TB, while demanding 3X the price of a 10TB despite the high endurance is a gargantuan challenge

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I dunno, we on the Enterprise side have always ponied up for the longer-lasting and far more expensive SLC based drives.

I know two datacenters in switzerland that instead go "the cheap way". For them, if a drive lasts 4 years instead of 8, it doesn't really matter, as in 4 years, drives will de better and consume less.

Your redundancy must be top notch though.

No doubt. I'd still like to option to have high-endurance handled transparently in firmware.

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