Tsumi
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Yes, your 2nd x16 slot goes through the PCH. That means it will be sharing bandwidth with your 2nd NVMe drive, SATA, USB, ethernet, etc, but shouldn't slowed down too much.
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3.2TB SSD for $240
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Yes, your 2nd x16 slot goes through the PCH. That means it will be sharing bandwidth with your 2nd NVMe drive, SATA, USB, ethernet, etc, but shouldn't slowed down too much.
FaRKle0079
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Ooh cool! I submitted an offer for $215 on Fri and the seller let it expire. I guess I'll try submitting one for $200, lol.
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The Samsung 830 drives we got like 9 years ago are still all going. So not all consumer drives are made equal.Nice to see some enterprise gear being spotlighted here. These things have some incredible durability too and will be still working when the best of consumer drives have already failed long ago.
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I still rock some Circa' 2008 Intel X-25E (Enterprise) 64GB SLC SSD's. The only one that failed... was an ES model!
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Just accepted my $200 offer too!
I've used similar drives under VMware without issue. I don't currently own any, and the support page only mentions ESXi 6.0, but the .VIB probably works with at least 6.5. I know I had one of their later drives working under 6.7 at one point.
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Just accepted my offer at 199.00! I'm going for it!
Turns out I had $65 in eBay bucks too...should be fun!
Turns out I had $65 in eBay bucks too...should be fun!
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TheSlySyl
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I'm curious about performance when they arrive.
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Dang...... Now I gotta think about this....
Are your gaming raid 0 numbers suffering for the failing drive? Im surprised that RAID array isn't faster than that? The 3.2GB drive is stealing your RAID array’s lunch money!
Might be? It's hamstrung by two different controllers and SATA2 and 3 ports mixed. I had just gotten a shit ton of those Edge SSDs from work when they were retired. So I slapped in as many as the board would hold and used windows software raid. It's honestly been pretty worry free ever since it was installed. They're all garbage Sandforce drives too.
Mine hangs out at 47 idle 53 loaded copying the raid over to it. Pretty reasonable. It's directly above my video card too. I do have a lot of fans in my case though.
Should be fine there for sure
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I've got a pair of the 1.6TB drives in service (one in each of my iSCSI targets) and they work great, tempting to pick up a pair of these to double my VM storage even though I am hardly filling the 1.6TB drives
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Just put in an offer at 190, thanks for the benchmarks, going to replace my crappy random ssd's that were on sale from like 2017
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Are they, though?
Sequential, sure, but sequential isn't the interesting number. 4K QD1 benchmarks look about the same as modern NVMe drives.
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Also, some of us run old garbage that doesn't have M.2
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Is there some driver or bios limitation on this drives or they work on any pci-e slot?
No, they aren't horrible for sure. I have an old server that I may pick some of these up for since my server is pcie 2.0. They seem like a decent deal.
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Didnt take my offer at 190 and stopped taking offers lol
Bought anyway, for games this is going to be un noticeable between an nvme. Thanks for posting OP! Will update with pics and numbers once I get it.
Bought anyway, for games this is going to be un noticeable between an nvme. Thanks for posting OP! Will update with pics and numbers once I get it.
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Took my offer at $200 yesterday. This should work great in my R710 SQL server (the stock PERC 6i is the bottleneck right now).
Thanks! got one for 199.96. 3.2TB will replace a 500GB NVME gaming drive (thats 90% full) that I have installed via a PCIe card in one of my 16x slots. I seriously doubt I'll see a big difference in load times between the two, and at $200 for 3.2TB...yeah, no brainer.
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When I selected make an offer, it said he was not accepting offers. Therefore, I sent a personal message offering $200, is that the way you guys did it?
You won't. I've used sn260 pcie cards. It's not going to make a difference in loads like that.
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I wonder about endurance on those, the old ssd mlc chips were really bad. Does it support trim?
If they are weak, and do not support trim it's a bad deal (at least for me - even for zfs cache usage.)
If they are weak, and do not support trim it's a bad deal (at least for me - even for zfs cache usage.)
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I don't think this was a problem for enterprise drives that were 10+ thousand US dollars when they were new.
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Used to have few LSI, Micron and OCZ (similar enterprise grade ~1tb ssd's on pci-e) in old company i was working at the time used for saas search engine indexing, was chewing through them within a year. (and those were SLC not weaker MLC - and they were really expensive)
MLC's in old enterprise were like 4000-6000 writes cycles (at very best)
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