gdanmitchell wrote:
Even with spinning disks, I've always gotten a bit uneasy about going past 80%, and I think that's probably a pretty good boundary for SSDs, especially those that get a lot of read/write cycles.
I'll confess that I've pushed things a few times in the past, perhaps with a backup drive or similar. And it didn't take long for the slowdowns to rear their heads.
The consumer grade drives are typically not overprovisioned very much and 80% is a reasonable utilization amount.
Enterprise grade drives are usually at least partly overprovisioned by default and many offer options for higher amounts.
For 8TB of data you want a 15.36TB SSD of course, and that is not considering the 10^12 vs. 2^40 marketed vs. actual difference, which is about 90.9% at the "TB" level. For durability you want to look at DWPD. Most drives are geared towards read intensive, mixed use, or write intensive. Large capacity mixed use SSDs are often around 1 DWPD, which I find more than enough in the and they are usually TLC with good write performance when dirty.
I just saw a clip where someone is proposing their might be an M5 Mac Mini Max.
If they bring the Max to the Mini (and with an M5), assuming they can hit the 32GB or greater memory (which should be a given for a Max configuration), that would probably be the SWEET SPOT that a LOT of folks are looking for.
Of course, it's pretty early and likely just some fodder, at this point, but ...
