What’s the failure rate of consumer grade flash memory?
Or, to get to the point, what is the real difference between consumer grade and enterprise grade?
This https://storageswiss.com/2015/02/03/enterprise-vs-consumer-g…
suggests that the issue is write cycles, but I would like clarification on that. The other suggestion relates to persistence in the event of power failure, but that seems to me to be a property of “enterprise” overall hardware vs the flash itself. The article suggests that primarily read-only applications like web servers would be a good use case for consumer grade. There is also a question of the failure mode … if a module were able to announce that it had had all the writes it could take and one could replace the module in the overall device relatively cheaply, then consumer grade might still be a good alternative … but I am a little dubious about knowing that a module was going off.