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Why Your Business Needs Enterprise SSDs for Its Workloads

When picking SSDs for your NAS or all-flash storage array, you need to think about more than just speed and price. The SSDs you choose will have a direct impact on the long-term reliability, stability, and performance of your entire IT infrastructure. Many businesses start out using consumer-grade SSDs because they are cheap at first, but enterprise SSDs have important benefits that become more important as workloads grow.

We at Epis Technology help businesses choose and set up enterprise-grade SSD solutions that work best in Synology storage environments. This is why this choice is important.

1. Consistent performance under real work loads

A lot of people compare SSDs by looking at the single 4K random read/write number on the spec sheet. But that number only shows the best performance, not what happens when the workload is steady and real.

In thorough tests, consumer SSDs start off well with high IOPS, sometimes reaching 140,000, but they quickly break down and change a lot after only a few minutes. These big drops happen because consumer SSDs depend a lot on caching layers that fill up quickly when they are used for a long time.

Enterprise SSDs, on the other hand, have a performance curve that stays stable and almost flat. They are built to handle a steady load and provide consistent throughput, making them perfect for:

  • Machines that are not real
  • Operations on files all the time
  • Databases with a lot of I/O
  • NAS systems for more than one user

This stability is very important for businesses that need their systems to work well all day long.

How Epis Technology helps: We look at how you work and design Synology-based storage systems that use enterprise SSDs to make sure they are always fast and reliable.

2. More durability and built-in over-provisioning

Enterprise SSDs last longer because they have more space for over-provisioning. If you have a 1TB SSD but only see 960GB of space available, the missing 64GB is on purpose. It is set aside for internal maintenance tasks like:

  • Taking out the trash
  • Leveling of wear
  • Poor block management

These algorithms stop the SSD from wearing out too soon and make it last longer.

Companies should look at endurance metrics like TBW (Terabytes Written) and DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) to pick the best SSDs. The drive can handle more work if it has a higher rating.

For instance, a 1.92TB SSD with a 1,400 TBW rating and a 5-year warranty has a DWPD of 0.4, which means it can safely handle 768GB of writes per day.

How Epis Technology helps: We find the right TBW/DWPD class for your workloads, which keeps your Synology storage reliable for years without any unexpected drops in performance or early drive failures.

3. Protection against power loss to keep data safe

A cache is used by every SSD to store write operations for a short time. If the power goes out while data is still in this cache, it could be lost or damaged.

This is why enterprise SSDs have built-in capacitors or batteries that give them just enough extra power to finish writing safely. This feature is very important for:

  • Databases
  • Virtual worlds
  • NAS clusters with high availability
  • Heavy workloads that require a lot of writing

If you don’t have power loss protection, a short power outage could corrupt your data or make your filesystem inconsistent.

How Epis Technology helps: We set up Synology-based redundancy systems and enterprise SSDs with full power-loss protection to make sure that data is always safe.

Choosing the Best SSDs for Your Business

There are a lot of different form factors, price points, and endurance classes in the SSD market, which makes it hard to choose. Businesses may be drawn to consumer SSDs because of their low cost and high peak speed, but there are hidden long-term risks, such as:

  • Performance drops that can’t be predicted
  • Shorter life span
  • More drive failures
  • More likely to lose data

Enterprise SSDs get rid of these risks because they are built for professional settings and have reliable endurance, stable performance, and advanced protection features.

Even companies like Seagate have come out with hybrid NAS-optimized SSDs, like the IronWolf series, that strike a balance between consumer flexibility and enterprise performance.

How Epis Technology Improves Your Strategy for Deploying SSDs and Synology

Epis Technology offers full consulting and implementation services for optimizing storage, such as:

  • Choosing the best enterprise SSD tiers for your workloads
  • Setting up Synology NAS and SAN environments for long-term performance
  • Setting up SSD caches and all-flash arrays
  • Keeping an eye on the health of SSDs and planning for their lifecycle
  • Putting in place strategies for redundancy and data protection

Epis Technology is an expert in Synology systems, enterprise storage, and performance engineering. They make sure that your SSD investment will be fast and last for a long time.

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