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They don't really make them anymore, but you can still get m.2 form factor Intel Optane SSDs in the 900/905P series, example[0]. They have insane endurance specs. Their performance is also still awesome, especially for random reads/writes[1]. I wish they had continued making them. Most PC builders just bought crappy Samsung SSDs this whole time, ignoring these awesome (and high priced) drives.

> Life Expectancy 1.6 million hours Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

> Lifetime Endurance4 10 Drive Writes per Day (DWPD)

There was one update, but I don't believe it's m.2? [2]

0: https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-905p-series-380gb/p/...

1: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/ (sort by "Avg Bench" and you'll see these old Optanes still in the top 10)

2: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory...



> Most PC builders just bought crappy Samsung SSDs this whole time, ignoring these awesome (and high priced) drives.

Ha, you can't blame the consumer.

Great tech but expensive and locked to intel. Nobody was going back to the blue evil just because they had a really random reads and writes for the enterprise market.


Isn't userbenchmark the site that had them artificially giving Intel/nvidia better scores on GPU and CPU metrics?


Same one. Assume malice, cluelessness, or both when someone cites "scores" from that place


Most PCs experience very little write load; I can imagine that many of them experience less than one full drive write per lifetime.

A database server box, or even a CI build box, is a whole different business.




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