Thanks for all the replies. In summary; consumer grade SSD is a no go.

What is an alternative to SM863a? Since it is quite hard to get these due non 
non-stock.

Thanks!
Sinan

> Op 23 dec. 2019 om 08:50 heeft Eneko Lacunza <elacu...@binovo.es> het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi Sinan,
> 
> Just to reiterate: don't do this. Consumer SSDs will destroy your enterprise 
> SSD's performance.
> 
> Our office cluster is made of consumer-grade servers: cheap gaming 
> motherboards, memory, ryzen processors, desktop HDDs. But SSD drives are 
> Enterprise, we had awful experiences with consumer SSDs (some perform worse 
> that HDDs with Ceph).
> 
> Cheers
> Eneko
> 
>> El 19/12/19 a las 20:20, Sinan Polat escribió:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Thanks for the replies. I am not worried about their lifetime. We will be 
>> adding only 1 SSD disk per physical server. All SSD’s are enterprise drives. 
>> If the added consumer grade disk will fail, no problem.
>> 
>> I am more curious regarding their I/O performance. I do want to have 50% 
>> drop in performance.
>> 
>> So anyone any experience with 860 EVO or Crucial MX500 in a Ceph setup?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>>> Op 19 dec. 2019 om 19:18 heeft Mark Nelson <mnel...@redhat.com> het 
>>> volgende geschreven:
>>> 
>>> The way I try to look at this is:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 1) How much more do the enterprise grade drives cost?
>>> 
>>> 2) What are the benefits? (Faster performance, longer life, etc)
>>> 
>>> 3) How much does it cost to deal with downtime, diagnose issues, and 
>>> replace malfunctioning hardware?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> My personal take is that enterprise drives are usually worth it. There may 
>>> be consumer grade drives that may be worth considering in very specific 
>>> scenarios if they still have power loss protection and high write 
>>> durability.  Even when I was in academia years ago with very limited 
>>> budgets, we got burned with consumer grade SSDs to the point where we had 
>>> to replace them all.  You have to be very careful and know exactly what you 
>>> are buying.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 12/19/19 12:04 PM, jes...@krogh.cc wrote:
>>>> I dont think “usually” is good enough in a production setup.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thursday, 19 December 2019, 12.09 +0100 from Виталий Филиппов 
>>>> <vita...@yourcmc.ru>:
>>>> 
>>>>    Usually it doesn't, it only harms performance and probably SSD
>>>>    lifetime
>>>>    too
>>>> 
>>>>    > I would not be running ceph on ssds without powerloss protection. I
>>>>    > delivers a potential data loss scenario
>>>> 
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