That is an interesting choice. I'm sure there reasoning was a bit more involved than that statement, but there's a gap between an enterprise SSDs and consumer

That is an interesting choice. I'm sure there reasoning was a bit more involved than that statement, but there's a gap between an enterprise SSDs and consumer grade laptop drives, and plenty of use cases that fit in that gap. Anandtech, for example, recently transitioned from enterprise-grade spinning disks to SSDs for their site, but using Intel mainstream SSDs: > "we instead decided to go with mainstream SSDs to lower the risk of a random mechanical failure. We didn't need the endurance of an enterprise drive in these machines since they weren't being written to all that frequently, but we needed reliable drives. Although quite old by today's standards, we settled on 160GB Intel X25-M G2s but partitioned the drives down to 120GB in order to ensure they'd have a very long lifespan." (http://anandtech.com/show/6824/inside-anandtech-2013-allssd-architecture http://anandtech.com/show/6824/inside-anandtech-2013-allssd-...) In the comments, Anand mentions that he went with the X25-M since the upgrade was last year; if he were doing it now, it would be the Intel 710 or S3700. Also worth noting that reliability, not speed, was their primary motivator. I wonder if there's a way that Linode could open up that as an option to subscribers? The disks have a shorter lifespan with high writes, but that's measurable, and could be worked into the cost.