If you want enterprise gear on the cheap, yes. Ebay.
There are regular vendors on Ebay with thousands of verified sales. Go with those till you figure it all out.
You can definitely make bad choices, but even when I’ve gotten bad drives, the vendor just immediately refunded the money, like that day.

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Is “Discard” the write caching you refer to?
Or are you talking about the actual Write Cache?

Sometimes you are just right. No mind reading required.

It looks like that part is a Mixed Use drive. Particularly in this 6gb interface, you’ll enjoy something with equal read/write, so that seems like a reasonable choice. If you are interested in comparing to their other drives, they have a great configurator on their page.
https://semiconductor.samsung.com/ssd/datacenter-ssd/pm893/

I know it’s irritating to watch your SSDs burn up, but with 1% used in a month … your current drives will last at least a couple years. You won’t have to make this decision for a while yet. I think the thing to do is check it occasionally, and plan ahead when it gets low. You may well decide that the cheaper drives are worth it in the end.

Sometimes they come back. I’ve re-learned to use apt-get dist-upgrade for Proxmox patching.

Well, that’s interesting. I guess linux really is going more mainstream, if that’s the more common user experience. The users I know are mostly professionals that enjoy tinkering under the hood. Thanks for your perspective, stranger.

Ok, I can see that in SteamOS, users that don’t directly interact with a package manager. That seems likely.

I would say that ‘most users’ of just about any linux distro know all about command line package managers.
So, my ‘most users’ and your ‘most users’ don’t seem to be the same people.

Yes, exactly. The company I work for has lots of yum scripting. I don’t hate dnf, its just not the interface I’ve used at work.

I don’t know these linux people that don’t use package managers. So I asked.

Who are ‘most users’?

I guess I should learn about that last bit. Someday …

That makes perfect sense until I contrast it with the fact that I’ve never had any sort of issue with yum’s performance. I do this crap for a living. I might carry out the same install or patching on several servers. As long as it executes in a consistent and reliable way, performance is really a secondary consideration.

Well the distros in question are pretty standard. RHEL, CENT, Oracle, Rocky. Ok. At least they let me keep my interface.

None that I know of. I’m pretty sure they are both installed. I think dnf has some sort of TUI. I was just never interested.

I’ll concur with mlfh, the constant Proxmox corosync writes and gawd knows what else have a reputation for ‘cutting through commercial ssds like a torch through tissue paper’ (that’s frequently dropped on their forum.)
Also, yes. Enterprise SSD. You get at least 10x the lifespan, depending on the type.

I think some folks just use LVM for the OS on SSD. I’ve done it myself in some circumstances, although I am a ZFS fan.

My homelab runs a zfs mirror raid for a secondary datastore (ie this is NOT the OS drive) on a pair of commercial grade lexar 790 NVMe. Both drives have 0% usage after most of a year in service, although it hosts several VMs that run 24/7.

They mentioned YUM just long enough to shit on it. I’ve never had a reason to switch to DNF. Fukit. YUM works.

The devs are some really strange folks. They would enjoy your discomfiture.

But as OP said, they are really, emphatically, antifa-level before antifa was cool, no-nazi.

I recommend reading their “Frequently Questioned Answers” document, aka Dash1.
https://fqa.9front.org/dash1.release.pdf

I’ve read a lot of tech docs through the years. Hands down, this is my favorite.

I do not recommend installing their OS, unless you have time to kill and curiosity.
9front is completely useless. It’s a programmer’s toy; a sandbox to develop some OS build ideas.

I install 9front releases, screw with a couple windows, and give up again. It’s a cycle.