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Is there a place for benchmarks where we can discover the “best” SSDs? I find their performance varies wildly.

SSDs aren't as easy to model as spinning drives, but either way, it depends on your use case. Definitely get as much data from others as possible, but very few people will be running the same use cases as you.

You can probably figure out the general class of storage you need / can afford, which is interface and bits per cell, but then you probably need to try several well regarded drives (or several dodgy drives, if that's what you can afford) to see how they work for you. Or just go with whatever your hosting provider can supply ;)

https://www.storagereview.com/ was always my first stop for in-depth reviews of disks

ssd.userbenchmark.com has some good data. They crowdsource benchmarks from users, which lets you get a pretty good idea of not only average performance but also the distribution of performance numbers across hundreds of real-world systems.

For Server usage, your best bet is Servethehome and Anandtech.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ssds,3891.html

These are consumer level SSD's that are very well known by professionals to be slow. They are good for quick bursts of traffic but throttles with heavy use over time. They also have horrible sync write performance https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/did-some-w...

They belong in a desktop/gaming machine not in a production web server.

Here is an old review with enterprise drives and the Samsung 840 pro consumer drive which received excellent reviews at the time it was released, notice how it is the worst performer over time. https://www.storagereview.com/micron_m500dc_enterprise_ssd_r...

The exception is Optane 900p which is blazing fast! A gamechanger!

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