I’ve been using Loki and promtail for containers I actually care about aggregating logs for. It’s something relatively new for me but so far the experience has been positive.

Wikipedia link for reference:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deseret_alphabet

I’ve had SSDs go bad. So if it’s something you really care about I’d approach it the same as hard disks.

I would second this. A normal tower with a high quality psu and 5 drives is what I use for cheap storage. Obviously more failure prone than true enterprise hardware but a hell of a lot cheaper.