SSD endurance measures how much data a drive can write before NAND wear-out, not how long it will run.

Match SSD endurance to your workload first. Read-intensive drives cost less per terabyte, but they fail prematurely under heavy write workloads, and no warranty covers such misuse.

Every recent forecast about enterprise storage points in the same direction: UP. Analysts value the broader data center storage market at roughly USD 89.09 billion in 2026