Quote Originally Posted by IanB View Post
Personally, for many years, ever since I discovered the difference between consumer and RE/Enterprise drives, I've never bought a consumer-class drive or installed one for my friends or at work. I'm willing to pay and recommend that premium for a good reason.

Now that SSDs (that have virtually no asssociated mechanical failure risks and draw significantly lower power) are reaching 1TB at affordable prices and 2TB is likely to arrive fairly soon, I suspect mechanical drives are going to have a very short market lifespan. After all, what is the effective URE rate for SSDs? I'm simply not planning any RAIDs with mechanical disks any more.
Because ssd don't have a maximum amount of writes or anything.

Also, 1tb ssd affordable? For who? Bill gates or Oprah?
I'm having a hard time affording a 900$ worth of mechanical drives to think that I would at least need to quadruple that number to get any real amount of data wouldn't even be worth my time to dream about, apart from rich people and enterprise mech drives will be around a long time as most people would rather run that chance of failure than either a. Not get a storage array in the first place or b. Spend 5x as much (if not more)

This failure rate thing has been around for a while, and is well known, this is why anyone who had a raid array rarely runs over 2tb drives, these 6tb drives are for random gaming rigs running one storage drive etc.