Samsung PM863 960GB $309 OBO

[Shadow.X]

Samsung PM863 2.5" 960GB MZ-7LM9600 $309 OBO | eBay

Listed as new

NAND is Samsung 32 Layer 128Gbit TLC V-NAND

520MB/sec read 475MB/sec Write 1,400TB Endurance

STH PM863 Benches

 

[Patrick]

Nice find. I probably have 10 of those drives and they have been working well.

 

[Patriot]

autodeclined 4x $200

 

[croakz]

What are people's thoughts of this drive versus a PM853T at ~$220?

 

[Patrick]

What are people's thoughts of this drive versus a PM853T at ~$220?

Depends on the use and price. Same price I would get the PM863's.

 

[Stereodude]

You guys are going to cost me a lot of money I think. I wonder what the seller will take? They have accepted two offers by others.

 

[MiniKnight]

You guys are going to cost me a lot of money I think. I wonder what the seller will take? They have accepted a two offers.

Welcome to the club!

How low are they going?

 

[Stereodude]

How low are they going?

Not sure. I didn't make any offers. I'm trying to convince myself that I don't need one (or more). Sorry I wasn't clear.

 

[croakz]

Got one BO @ $250. Now wondering if I need another.

 

[Patriot]

This batch is sold out. He will get more... I bought 4 from him back in november.

 

[Marsh]

PM863 vs 960gb Sandisk Cloudspeed Ascend SATA SSD ($230)
Approx same price, which one would you take?

Thanks

 

[Patrick]

Speed - Samsung
Endurance - Sandisk

 

[Evan]

Where are these drives coming from ?
Seems odd to be disposing drives of ~1tb size.

(Although put a few in a raid for regular file storage and never see a spinning disk again does sound good)

 

[OBasel]

1TB not that big these days if you're buying new enterprise servers

 

[Evan]

1TB not that big these days if you're buying new enterprise servers

True but that's buy today, if these are server pull's then usually the servers are 3,4, or 5 years old. That's why I wonder whe they come from, I understand some will be upgrades but just seems to be a lot around.

 

[OBasel]

True but that's buy today, if these are server pull's then usually the servers are 3,4, or 5 years old. That's why I wonder whe they come from, I understand some will be upgrades but just seems to be a lot around.

When you buy corporate you get a discount. Sometimes companies buy servers with drives then end up pulling them right after. The PM863 is less than a yr old so I don't think these are from old servers. Product hasn't been out long enough.

 

[Evan]

I know corporates do some strange things ... And in the absence of any other ideas maybe it's that but I bet the drives are not cheap to start with. I know how HP charge for disks !

 

[croakz]

These are only $550 or so retail, so it's not a crazy discount.

 

[Evan]

Suppose so, the 3.84tb model is 2100 retail, I would love to see those reduced a bit... That's what I would love to use for data.

 

[Stereodude]

These are only $550 or so retail, so it's not a crazy discount.

Cheaper than the 850 EVO though which is it's closest relative from the consumer lineup.