Intel SSD DC S3610 Series Drives

> Limit Q2 Yeah I need like 8-12 of these. Who sells enterprise drives with a Q limit of 2??? No wonder not a single person has joined this drop.

Agreed, but how much risk will an enterprise drive in a consumer computer create, other than the increased cost? It all depends on how you want to protect your data. For example, my home computer has a Samsung SSD sustem drive. The primary backup drive monitors the data on the computer (which has several HDs) and does a backup every 30 min if any of the data changes. Every hour a 2nd backup drive is updated with the changes to the primary backup drive. Once a night, I have 2 external backup drives which are updated with the day's changes to the data. So the granularity of the backup are 30 min / 60 min / 24 hours. There are 4 backup drives, 2 of which are external to the computer case and connected to the computer via USB. The other 2 backups are inside the computer case with SATA connections. If I need to bug out it would take about 30 seconds for me to get the 2 external backups into my briefcase and I have all of the data on my PC. If I use my laptop all my data is stored on a USB jump drive. When I'm done I just move the USB jump drive to my home PC and it automatically makes 4 backups as described above. I also clone the USB jump drive onto another USB jump drive. Am I parinoid about loosing data??? YES! But the backup system described above is very quick, does not use up a lot of computer resources, and I end up with 4 backups that I can plug into another computer and be back in business in a few minutes. In the 15+ years of using this backup system I have never lost any data, although I have had several HDs fail. In fact, on several occasions I have recovered files that my wife accidentally deleted from the system data drives. Note: I am also concerned about ransomware so I have another USB HD and every week or two I make a mirror backup of the main backup drive and never leave this drive connected to the system. Ransomware cannot get around this airgap, and I installed a "write protect" switch on this offline backup drive to add another layer of protection. You could also set up two RAID 5 arrays, and have 1 RAID array setup to mirror the other. This is kind of expensive as you need 2X the number of drives and there is a lot of system overhead to maintain the RAIDS and the mirror, and of course the time to rebuild the RAIDs if a drive fails and needs to be replaced. In designing a backup system I am looking for fault tollerence of the system as I know that individual components might fail, low system overhead, ease of use, and a low total cost of the system. Also of concern is availability of parts if something needs to be replaced. I always liked that I could go to Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, etc., and get replacement parts quickly if something breaks, as it eventually will.

Also worth noting that consumer drives have more error recovery systems built in, so drives can hang or slow momentarily if there are bad sectors, but have a better chance of recovering your date. Whereas enterprise drives are typically used in raids and have external hardware managing any errors so enterprise drives are intentionally designed to fail at once so they can be replaced rather then grinding to a halt trying to recover sectors and slowing down their whole cluster and to pass read errors on to the controller so it can manage recovery rather then the drive. The average home user should not use an enterprise drive in their computer.