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It will be approx. 50GB give/take, SQL DB. But the server will be a VMware host hosing who-knows-what VMs in the coming few years. (IT planning ... yea right). Read/writes: the worst or the least or the best <-- it is up to the whims of the DB admins who, sometimes, write stuff that sends...

That's just it. I really would like for these 24 drives to last beyond the 3 years warrantied. If not, I could have gotten away with half of them. I pushed for 24 due to the, "might not get this chance again" and it is solid DR anyhow (if not paranoid DR right?). The controller is a PERC...

^this is what I'm talking about. Dell states up front they will _not_ support these drives after 3 years. There has to be a reason for that ... for them to turn down good $. Thx for sending me to WHT. I'm reading thru now. Of course, I in no way could get SLCs. What has happened is...

I need to emphasize that these are Dell SSD MLC SATAs with a warranty of 3 years _only_ and that Dell will not warranty past 3 years (they say this in big, bold letters). ^this more than reading about CF has affected my paranoia (and wearing empty kleenex boxes for shoes)....

It will be our 3rd VMware ESXi host and it will indeed house some DBs -- at the very least, one new SQL DB server that will do a lot of work. To date, I've not placed my heavy SQL DBs in a VM due to I/O. These SSDs should finally provide the speeds to do so. tl;dr: I will be putting DBs on...

/taps mic is this thing on?

I have 24 200GB SATA MLC SSD drives in a brand new Dell server. I need this server and these drives to last the 3 years warrantied and then some. We typically use our servers long past 3 years. Questions: 1. Is correlated failure a real concern I should have? I.e., when all SSDs in the same...