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[mirimir]

OK, fair point. Although I don't know enough about SSDs to know whether there's more to it.

But what else is different?

[u02sgb → mirimir]

I think mainly warranty, although other posters are saying enterprise drives have capacitors to help with writing during power loss. I'd have thought a good battery backed raid controller would handle this but "enterprise"="belt and braces" so I can see why a lot of businesses pay the extra.

[mirimir → u02sgb]

Right. Capacitors. Especially for write cache, I think.

But yeah, battery-backed RAID plus UPS would be good enough for most, I guess.

[tinus_hn → u02sgb]

So the enterprise drives perform as specified and the consumer drives don’t?

[u02sgb → tinus_hn]

Sorry, late to reply! The warranty differences are things like with enterprise they'll send you a new one as soon as the SMART data suggests it's going to fail. Consumer is usually you post it back and they send you a new one.

[candiodari → tinus_hn]

If you actually read the specification on consumer drives you'll see they're "guaranteed" for like 100 rewrites and you don't have any right to anything if they fail.

Which should be a hint as to what's coming.