Yes, same seller. No, not antistatis bags, they were individually wrapped in very well sealed bubble wrap and then the box was additionally filled with bubble wrap so they were snugly secured. I have a picture of the packaging - if anyone is interested I can upload it.Hi @HomeLabber, did you purchase the drives from same seller as listed in OP?
Was the drives wrapped in any antistatic bags?
(Handy to know when using freight forwarding company)
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Yes pleaseYes, same seller. No, not antistatis bags, they were individually wrapped in very well sealed bubble wrap and then the box was additionally filled with bubble wrap so they were snugly secured. I have a picture of the packaging - if anyone is interested I can upload it.
May be they are expecting additional batches to hit market and drive the price down.Just a heads up... Seller snap accepted 6 at $160.00
Is that even a question? The PM863 is a mix-use read intensive drive. Not only that, it's TLC. If you were serious about DB and Ceph workloads you would add in 20% of OP to the PM836 which puts it at 400GB anyways...
Still a great price but I think I might be out of the race for these. Is the price premium and 80GB defecit on these compared to the PM863 480GB worth it for database and Ceph type workloads?
That's a subsidy of the seller I got those drives from.Different seller not a deal at the listed price but if anyone is looking for these in lots of 100 -
100 Dell R730XD Intel DC S3710 MLC 400GB SSD 2.5 6Gb/s SATA III Wrnty Sept 2020
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These aren't going into a production environment. I won't be over provisioning any drives unless it's already built into the drives I get. Huge difference in endurance between the Intels and the Samsungs but I doubt I'd be using the Samsungs up before I was looking to replace them anyway. The DB setup would be clustered as well so writes would be distributed.Is that even a question? The PM863 is a mix-use read intensive drive. Not only that, it's TLC. If you were serious about DB and Ceph workloads you would add in 20% of OP to the PM836 which puts it at 400GB anyways.
So yes, TLDR, S3710 definitely > PM863, hell even the SM863 which is MLC 3D.
That said, the original seller that sold these from CA managed to pick me drives that were indeed under 1.5TB writes max. Most drives averaged around 400GB. Roughly 6K hours on every drive. 3 drives were about 1.2-1.5TB. I had one that was brand new, literally, 6K hours, but 0GB writes/reads, as if it was a hotspare or something.
July-Sept Warranty dates.