Intermit.tech - Get the right NVMe drive for your plotter

Yeah, they are using double or triple the amount of chips for the endurance, since in an Enterprise product they can charge for it. And then they can also integrate en 8 channel (or more) controller, thus keeping speeds up.

Regarding the TBW to be lower on high performance drives, I believe this is artificially done so that users don’t write through their TBW values in the warranty period. If you give a drive 3600TBW but it can only do 500MB/sec, unlikely the customer is going to hit that in 5 years. If a drive can do 2000MB/sec well then they might so let’s give them a lower number to start with. :slight_smile:

Currently my numbers are still holding strong and both the 600TBW are still telling me they’ll do at lest 2000TB actually written, so we’ll see! :smiley:

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