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Avoid Phison S10/S11 drives and you should be fine.

It's brandname NAND, but with more defective sectors out of the box (every nand device has bad sectors anyway). Usually packaged and binned by 3rd parties. That doesn't mean it dies a lot more often. Flash controllers are a lot more prone to faulire, than nand.

It's still plenty fast for an ssds and order of magnitudes faster compared to HDDs, where it matters. I wouldn't worry about sequential writes. Budget drives, that offer 500MB/s writes are usually inflated due to slc caching.

I can't possibly see how this would actually work on SSDs. They are claiming to defrag files, so that in their theory it would take less blocks than necessary. Unless you have direct access to SSDs FTL (which they most certainly don't) you can't actually affect something like this. SSD manages...

Try to overclock and optimize timings. Other than that, it makes little sense to throw money at that. It's better to upgrade the cpu to a 4c8t

Only Phison E16 supports 4.0 right now, so every design is based on that controller. Samsung probably doesn't want to rush this until it's ready.

One thing is for platform to work with ECC ram, another thing is for actual ECC to work as indented. Did anyone tried testing ECC on am4?

Does AM4/Athlon even support ECC?

Don't use flash storage, if you plan on storing the drives for longer periods of time. Flash, especially newer one, is susceptible to data degradation (ie electrons leak from the flash cells and as such value is invalid) so unless you refresh the data, it's bound to go currupted at some point.

SSDs have no concept of filesystem, so it really doesn't matter, what kind you use. So yes, ssd will use free space for internal work, if the data on there is invalid (ie trimmed or deleted or to be overwritten).

Depends on what you're after. With the new Pi, you have a lot of DIY options on what you can do.

Maybe there's a bios whitelist for DRAM. In that case, you'd need to source RAM directly from HP or whoever the manufacturer is.

Innostor is pretty much at the bottom of the barrel as far as flash controllers go. Awful random performance and very simplistic design (as it should be, since they're very cheap).

20 years ago SLC was still widely used and with 100k p/e cycles, having no real wear levelling support wasn't such a big deal for consumer devices like sd cards.

Personally, i'd never use SSDs fo bulk storage, especially for offline drives. Yes, SSDs are awesome for system drives, but if you need a lot of storage, HDDs are still the way to go. You can unplug one for 10 years and data will still be there.