FT: 2 x Samsung 500GB 860 EVO SATA 2.5" hard drives, or Intel ES CPUs, or Radeon RX 580 8GB / 5700 XT 8GB, for a 1 TB NVME drive or a 8 TB+ SATA drive

FT: 2 x Samsung 500GB 860 EVO 2.5" SATA (SATA 6 Gbps) hard drives (Samsung 64‑layer TLC V‑NAND, onboard 512MB LPDDR4 DRAM cache, plus a 22GB SLC write cache, that is classified as a "High-End SATA" SSD hard drive in Zack's huge SSDs tiers doc), that both have a 100% CDI (drive health) report, or up to 3 x Intel Engineering Sample (ES) Intel LGA-1700 socket (65W TDP, that support either DDR4 or DDR5 RAM) Core i9-12900 equiv. and Core i7-12700 equiv. CPUs, or a PowerColor Red Dragon AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5 video card, for a 1 TB NVME (not SATA 2.5" and not M.2) hard drive (or a 2 TB NVME + cash), as well as a 8 TB or larger SATA 2.5" hard drive (mechanical drive, not a solid state drive), that has a 99% or 100% CDI. All of my parts for trade work great; and I've listed some more for trade items below. I'd prefer the NVME drive (I'm brand agnostic) to have a DRAM cache, but a DRAM-less drive *may* work, but since the drive will be used on a Raspberry Pi 5 I'd prefer the NVME hard drive to have a DRAM cache, and not require Host Memory Buffer (HMB) that RPi 5 can't support; read article). I need to replace a 500 GB NVME hard drive in my RPi 5 that has an NVME hat, that is hosting Immich photos app. My 140-0-0 HeatWare: https://www.heatware.com/u/330.

Note: I also have a ASUS ROG Strix Gaming Radeon RX 5700 XT OC 8GB GDDR6 video card that I could do a partial trade for a 2 TB NVME hard drive. I also have Corsair VENGEANCE LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3600 DIMMs (Desktop RAM Kit), that comes in the retail box and works good. I also have G.SKILL 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6800 CL34-45-45-108 DIMMs (Desktop RAM Kit) that comes in another G.SKILL packaging that doesn't match this model, that was purchased on [H]ardForum, that is untested by me, as I never got a DDR5 board to test it out with, but it should work, to use for a partial trade. I also have a Elegoo Centauri Carbon Canvas unit with an added original CC1 non-AMS port cable, that are both new in a sealed box (I bought 2 x Canvas units within an hour of the pre-order -sale starting, but I ended up only needing one). I also have 3 x Intel Engineering Sample (ES) Intel LGA-1700 socket (65W TDP, that support either DDR4 or DDR5 RAM) Core i9-12900 equiv. and Core i7-12700 equiv. CPUs that I could trade (one or more of my ES CPUs) for a 1 TB or 2 TB SATA or NVME hard drive; and the info about my 3 x ES CPUs is stated at the very bottom of this post.

860 EVO HDD # 1 (that has 100% "Good" Health Status, 32887 GB "Total Host Writes" in CrystalDiskInfo app, that I tested on 09/12/26) - 860 EVO 500GB SATA HDD - S3Z1NB0K8441xxx:




860 EVO HDD # 2 (that has 100% "Good" Health Status, 5432 GB "Total Host Writes" in CrystalDiskInfo app, that I tested on 09/12/26) - 860 EVO 500GB SATA HDD - 860 EVO 500GB SATA HDD - S3Z1NB0K8440xxx:





PowerColor Red Dragon AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5 video card (purchased from wildzcardz on [H]ardForum):


Note: I have since taken a black sharpie and painted over the two affected areas (on one the left edge of the card near the bracket, and the other with the yellow arrow pointing to it, so the "bare metal" portions are now black that match the card metal:

Corsair VENGEANCE LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3600 DIMMs (Desktop RAM Kit), model # CMK16GX4M2D3600C16, that comes in the retail box and works great to use as a for trade trade item:



Edit: I also have a G.SKILL 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6800 CL34-45-45-108 DIMMs (Desktop RAM Kit), model # F5-6800J3445G16GX2-RS5K, that comes in another G.SKILL packaging for a different 64GB (2x32GB) DDR5 model that isn't this same model, that was purchased from Rustic on [H]ardForum, that is untested by me, as I never had a DDR5 board to test it out with (it was going to be a future purchase), but it should work, to use as a for trade item:



More about the 3 x Intel ES) LGA-1700 socket CPUs:
3 x Intel Engineering Sample (ES) Intel LGA-1700 socket (65W TDP, that support either DDR4 or DDR5 RAM) CPU's, all CPUs contain an iGPU, including 2 x QXQ3 (ES), which is around a i9-12900 equivalent, but with the CPU lanes missing and reduced clock speeds (10 to 15% slower), and 1 x QXQ4 (ES), which is around a i7-12700 equivalent CPU, but with the CPU lanes missing, and reduced clock speeds (10 to 15% slower). The QXQ3 is an engineering sample (ES) of the Intel Core i9-12900 processor. It features 16 cores and 24 threads, with a base clock speed of 1.2 GHz. The QXQ4 is an engineering sample (ES) of the Intel Core i7-12700 processor. It features 12 cores and 20 threads, with a base clock speed of 4.0 GHz. All ES CPU's have been tested on MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk motherboard (with the retail BIOS) and operate fine using the iGPU, with no instability after stress testing them using Blender, Cinebench R20, and Prime95 apps; great for virtualization (virtual machine hosting), home NAS, and video transcoding. Bought here. Note: These 3 x ES CPUs are missing the CPU lanes, and can't utilize the first (primary) PCI-Express slot with a GPU video card, so they aren't great for gaming. A GPU video card (if you don't want to use the iGPU) can be installed in any of the other PCI-E slots, that isn't the top first (primary) slot, which aren't directly connected to the CPU, they are connected through the Z690 chipset, and will work with these ES CPUs, and the same thing goes for the NVME M.2 slots. I purchased all of these CPU's on [H]. See the attached photos of 2 out of 3 of the stated ES CPUs (and 1 x QXQ3 CPU I still have in a PC). You can watch this video by der8auer (Roman H., CEO of Thermal Grizzly), from 2022, where he reviewed a similar 12900K ES CPU, to show the performance (in his case focused on gaming using modern 3080 Ti, 6900 XT, and 6950 XT GPUs), where his results showed about 16% slower gaming performance with the ES CPU versus the non-ES CPU, and any gotchas:
View: https://youtu.be/OdD_cI4o02A?si=4iJOdTd52sJtZIj0

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Added a 2 x 16GB (32GB total) G.SKILL DDR5-6800 DIMMs (Desktop RAM Kit) as a for trade item. Added two photos of the Corsair VENGEANCE LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4-3600 DIMMs (Desktop RAM Kit). I decreased the "wall of text", to move most of the 3 x Intel ES CPUs info text to the very bottom.

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