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It's been a while since I've been in the hardware-level IT side of things, but is it not unwise to run a production server with SanDisk drives?

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> been a while since I've been in the hardware-level

Well yeah that’s probably why you see “SanDisk” and think of consumer SD cards.

I'd imagine. Do they make stuff now that's intended to be spec'd for enterprise servers?

What is the industry standard for this?

No idea now. I usually look to BackBlaze's periodic drive performance reports when I'm shopping, but even that's been a while for me.

at a large enough scale, almost everything backblaze uses is sufficiently reliable as measured by percentage of any pool of 100 drives that fails in a year, as they have a large amount of parity / data duplication across multiple pods, hot spares, etc.

I haven't seen any drives that really stood out as terrible in their reports in the last couple of years for 12TB+ spinning disks, although the HGST product do seem to be the most reliable.

The manufacturers whose drives they use provide a good basis for my consideration. I don't see certain names on their lists sometimes, so my search usually is narrowed down by that.

there's literally only 3 spinning HDD manufacturers on earth now so if a name doesn't appear on their list now it's because it doesn't exist. some of the things on their list are now brands owned by a single company through consolidation.

They now have a SSD report: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ssd-edition-2021-drive-stats-...

samsung or intel would be strongly preferable in my opinion

Not so. Intel is the highest rated for failure from a QC point of view. We've been having a rash of such problems with our last batch that it's making everyone in our department nervous before shipment.

It is always sad when a previously highly rated manufacturer turns to crap. Intel was an extremely solid option back in the earliest days of SSDs.

For an SSD, you need to buy "Enterprise" or "Data Center" class drives for this kind of application. That class of drive have higher write endurance which is important since enterprise applications can have orders of magnitude more writes to their drives than a typical desktop.

That said, there's no real standard blanket vendor recommendation so long as the "Enterprise" criteria is met.

Do SanDisk sell enterprise / data center class drives?

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