Write-Intensive Enterprise SSDs

Key takeaways

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• Write-intensive drives reserve more raw NAND as overprovisioned spare area for the higher DWPD rating, so a write-intensive model can top out at less usable capacity than a read-intensive one.
• The highest write-intensive DWPD ratings tend to be built only as NVMe, since sustained write throughput at that endurance level can exceed what a SATA or SAS link sustains.
• Write-intensive fits logging, cache and heavy transactional tiers; a read-heavy role gets no benefit from the extra endurance and pays for capacity given up to overprovisioning.