Choosing SSDs for Your Homelab: Consumer vs Enterprise, and Where Endurance Actually Matters
Every homelab ends up with SSDs doing several different jobs at once: booting the hypervisor, holding VM disks, backing a ZFS special vdev or SLOG, maybe just serving as bulk fast storage for a database. Most buying advice treats this as one decision, “get an SSD, more capacity is better,” and stops there. That’s fine for a boot drive. It’s a real mistake for anything doing sustained writes, and it can quietly cost you data integrity on a ZFS log device. The differences between consumer and enterprise flash are specific and they map directly onto which job a drive should actually do. ...