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I am pretty much just repeating what @Samuel Tai wrote, but in a more blunt way. The people you mention have no clue what they are talking about. It is like saying "do not use motorized vehicles to transport heavy goods because the suspension dies so quickly", when taking a small family car and putting 5 tons of load into it. Of course it will break. You simply chose the wrong vehicle for the job.Hi, some Synology users mentioned that it is not good to use SSD in a NAS as continuing writings can kill a SSD quickly.
It is the same with SSDs. There are (amongst others) technical reasons why enterprise SSD cost so much more than consumer-grade stuff. If, and this is a big "if", the workload fits, you may be successful with e.g. the pro models from Samsung. But the QLC models are made for little write activity and they are fundamentally different from the pro models (hence their higher price).
The SSD (and the exact model is critical here) does not play well with the workload the people threw at it. The same would have happened in a TrueNAS box, a Linux server, or a Windows desktop machine. It is purely the workload, i.e. a ton of write operations.It also seems that Samsung 2.5" EVO SSD does not play well with Synology NAS as people are complaining sudden dead of their SSD.
More write activity than those drives are specified for. Or the occasional bad drive, of course.Not sure about the cause.
Runtime hours are irrelevant. It is only the amount of data written. I recommend you google for "ssd write endurance" and read up on the topic.How is the situation using SSD (2.5" SATA3, NVMe) on TrueNAS systems? If I don't turn on the NAS (TrueNAS) 24/7, is it fine to use SATA III 2.5" SSD and NVMe SSD?
It is the way of using them. Coming back to my car analogy, you can pretty quickly kill a car on the race track (without an accident) which would have lasted 10 years with normal (less stressful) operation.Have been using NVMe SSD the past few years without issue.