Engineering sample 700GB pcie ssd nvme

[erek]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Engineerin...856374?hash=item48eb642db6:g:oeoAAOSwgE5fOuG-

 

[Grebuloner]

I dunno...I have doubts on their description. Why would ES stuff have a full box, retail label, and "warranty void if removed" sticker? Price is also way out of touch, particularly when the description is that they're being replaced because they're failing left and right. Also, the P420m doesn't use NVMe (too old).

 

[erek]

I dunno...I have doubts on their description. Why would ES stuff have a full box, retail label, and "warranty void if removed" sticker? Price is also way out of touch, particularly when the description is that they're being replaced because they're failing left and right. Also, the P420m doesn't use NVMe (too old).

 

[Grebuloner]

Dumpster diver trying to make a fast buck? His score is pretty darn low.

 

[SamuelL421]

Dumpster diver trying to make a fast buck? His score is pretty darn low.

Could be, but my guess is he works in the datacenter. That cage in the background of the one pic looks a lot like the “pens” in the datacenter my company uses.

 

[Zepher]

isn't that a SAS connector on the drive?

 

[Grebuloner]

Could be, but my guess is he works in the datacenter. That cage in the background of the one pic looks a lot like the “pens” in the datacenter my company uses.

Makes me even more suspicious, then. I can't imagine datacenter companies are big on letting employees walk out with retired drives to sell for personal profit. Other hardware from a smaller firm, sure, but data storage, no. Usually they send them off to a certified company for wiping/refurbishment/sale (like our FusionIOs) or destruction.

 

[Grebuloner]

isn't that a SAS connector on the drive?

It's a U.2 connector (SFF-8639), which is identical to SATAExpress and SAS3 (backpane, not drive). None can be plugged in to the others and work, which was kind of a dumb move for whoever in charge of uses 2 and 3 said "that's the one I want!"

 

[cyclone3d]

Listing says "they were used as engineering samples" not that they are engineering samples.

So that makes me think that they were used in some system that they were developing... in engineering samples of whatever system they were developing.