Exclusive for Prime members I think, but this is pretty far and away the least expensive high-density solid state storage I can remember seeing. Obviously not super-performant, but should be miles better than spinning rust.
Yeah, in that case it/they should perform really well then, with significantly lower power consumption too. As long as you're aware of the worst-case performance and your workload avoids it for the (vast) majority of the time then it's not a huge issue.Now I need to decide if that limitation is fine for a primarily write-once array or if the search continues for drives to replace my spinning array... Just feels bad to buy SSDs that are not any faster at sequential writes than my HDDs.
Any particular ones you'd recommend?IMO I'd rather get the 7.68TB enterprise-grade NVME drives off of ebay. Many of those have VERY low hours and i would expect that a low-hours enterprise grade drive would be far superior in reliability.
Though maybe the use-case for the samsung would be if you can only do SATA and nvme isn't an option.
Yeah, I'm definitely torn. The prices are pretty similar and obviously the performance of the U.2 drives is miles better. But since this is for a homelab I don't generally *need* that kind of throughput/IOPS. Given that my hyperconverged server is on 24/7, the lower power usage of the SATA drives is appealing too. Decisions decisions...IMO I'd rather get the 7.68TB enterprise-grade NVME drives off of ebay. Many of those have VERY low hours and i would expect that a low-hours enterprise grade drive would be far superior in reliability.
Though maybe the use-case for the samsung would be if you can only do SATA and nvme isn't an option.
I see a WD SN640 for $370 with zero hours - I imagine that would blow any SATA drive out of the water. There are used PM983's on there for $300 from China if you're comfortable with that.Any particular ones you'd recommend?
the NVME/SATA constraint is one reason why, the other is that I have a bunch of credit to use on Dell, and I can price match to Best Buy/Amazon, so I was considering the 870 EVOs. The other alternative is to get 8 of these, but that basically eats up all of my SATA ports.
yeah the power consumption is a bit too rich for me. So main drawbacks with 870 EVO TLC is:ServerPartsDeals also has a set of deals on new Intel/Solidigm drives (4510 and 4610, SATA and U.2) that promise the full five-year warranty from Solidigm. They have a 4TB P4510 U.2 that undercuts the 4TB Samsung 870 drive by $15 or so. A bit more expensive than the 8TB models, still ($389 vs. $315) but you're getting a lot more performance for your money.
(Fair warning that the lowest power consumption you'll get with the U.2 drives is 5W idle, which is more than the 870 drives consume active. You're not quite getting performance for free.)
EZ-PZ.What server could I get that could use nvme u.2 drives? Everything I found stops around 4 drives. with sata I can do a full 24.
For $170 for that are interested.
Those are slot heavy though. With the m2s you could stick 4 of them on a single x16 slot with the hyper m2 or just use regular 2.5" bays with the SATAsIMO I'd rather get the 7.68TB enterprise-grade NVME drives off of ebay. Many of those have VERY low hours and i would expect that a low-hours enterprise grade drive would be far superior in reliability.
Though maybe the use-case for the samsung would be if you can only do SATA and nvme isn't an option.
That is true - you can physically jam more m.2's into a slot; however, you could conceivably get one of these ridiculous things to run enterprise drives:Those are slot heavy though. With the m2s you could stick 4 of them on a single x16 slot with the hyper m2 or just use regular 2.5" bays with the SATAs
Yes, that's what they say ...ServerPartsDeals also has a set of deals on new Intel/Solidigm drives (4510 and 4610, SATA and U.2) that promise the full five-year warranty from Solidigm. ...
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I have 4x of these running and for full NVMe performance they need the extra power....
I'd had also wondered if the slot can provide enough power to run four drives at once under max load but it looks like there is a SATA power port on the back of the card.