Practically speaking, some are more concerned with reliability over ludicrous file write-speed. For example, the Intel m.2 consumer drive are considered relatively slow, but run relatively cool without a heat-sink. Notably thermal issues are still very common for laptops/tablets, and Flash premature aging tends to be temperature dependent as well. Very surprised Intel transferred the ssd line to Solidigm.
Also, some Linux users bloat their io buffer size to several GiB, set the eviction priority to 1 (rarely flushes dirty cache back to storage), and use F2FS for /home . This limits ssd wear, trim is auto run once a week, and hardware storage drivers can still regularly flush the drives internal high-speed SLC area as needed. Even the cheapest Sandisk and Samsung SATA drives from 6 years ago are still working just fine on the old hosts with this setup, and we expected them to EOL 4 years ago.
Also, some Linux users bloat their io buffer size to several GiB, set the eviction priority to 1 (rarely flushes dirty cache back to storage), and use F2FS for /home . This limits ssd wear, trim is auto run once a week, and hardware storage drivers can still regularly flush the drives internal high-speed SLC area as needed. Even the cheapest Sandisk and Samsung SATA drives from 6 years ago are still working just fine on the old hosts with this setup, and we expected them to EOL 4 years ago.
Tip: always sort by lowest negative ssd product reviews first. =)