Intel DC S3500 Series 600GB SSD SATA 2.5"

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Boddy

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Mine shipped FedEx NY, expected in California on 8/8/16. FYI.
 

nk215

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Got mine. Well packaged. Testing the first one right now. It has around 12,000 hours and have more than plenty of life left per Intel toolbox (the bar is mostly green with a tiny white at the end so it's more than 95% life left).

Edit: Speaking too soon. The second drive has less than 60% life left at only 13,000 hrs with almost 700,000GB written and 250,000GB read.
 
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andrewbedia

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Got mine. 59% (by hard disk sentinel logic) life left 640TB written. Still benches well. Not even mad. It'll be just fine for holding Steam games.
 

keybored

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If you use the latest Crystal Disk Info instead of hard disk sentinel, do you get the same TBW number or different?
 

Flintstone

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Hmm endurance rating for these is 330TBW. So I am a bit worried, but mine won't arrive in Norway for a while yet. Thinking of selling them if mine are that heavy used.


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smithse79

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So I got 2 of the 600GB S3500 drives and 1 of the 400GB S3710 in the other deal. They just showed up and here is what they look like







All in all, I'm happy.
 
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Patrick

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I think using the Intel SSD tool is the best source for remaining life if your Intel drives show up in it.
 

Flintstone

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My two drives (received today) had 12TBW and the other one 226TBW... Oh well...

Got 3pcs s3500 240GB also from another seller - but those have the HP firmware so no statistics. Bummer. Does anyone know if the power on hours on the HP firmware is correct?
 
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Rain

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My two drives (received today) had 12TBW and the other one 226TBW... Oh well...
Can you post a screenshot of what Intel SSD Toolbox reports on the drive with 226TBW? Anyone know how the "Estimated Life Remaining" percentage maps to the rated endurance on these drives?

In theory it should be roughly: 1 - (226TBW / 330TBW) = 31.5%.
 

Flintstone

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I guess it decreases a lot when you start using up on the spare pieces of MLC in the drive. Anyway I don´t really expect to write 100TB to this drive any time soon, so it should be a keeper. Just sold a Samsung 960GB I got at $195 to finance this - I have more trust in Intel :)
 
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smithse79

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So I got one installed into my desktop and running Windows 10. Looking at the drive details, It has ~26TBW but 172TB Read. Looks like it was in a read heavy environment.
 

Flintstone

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Mine had low read numbers (55TB for the heavy used drive, and 1,5TB for the other). Strange usage on these :)
 

Fritz

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I bought one from another seller just before I saw this thread. It's running HP firmware so dunno about total writes but at total power on time of 2 days - 19 hours, it's still a baby. I paid $130 for it tho.
 

Rain

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I guess it decreases a lot when you start using up on the spare pieces of MLC in the drive. Anyway I don´t really expect to write 100TB to this drive any time soon, so it should be a keeper. Just sold a Samsung 960GB I got at $195 to finance this - I have more trust in Intel :)
I would agree; I'd be happy with the drives you got too. I was only curious because people list SSDs on eBay with "Guaranteed >= 95% Estimated Life Remaining in Intel Toolbox," which certainly doesn't seem to mean "less than 5% of rated endurance used" based on the data shown in this thread.

Thanks for posting the screenshot!!
 
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Flintstone

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I bought one from another seller just before I saw this thread. It's running HP firmware so dunno about total writes but at total power on time of 2 days - 19 hours, it's still a baby. I paid $130 for it tho.
Just a thought. Could that amount of usage just mean HP tested it and pushed custom firmware to it? My 240gb HP drives also has something like that in hours - packed in retail-like packaging (sealed).
 

Fritz

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Anything's possible. Wonder why HP hides the S.M.A.R.T. data on their drives.
 

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Each one has less than 2 years online time, and not a lot of read/writes in the grand scheme of things. No errors or unwanted smart data. Unexpected power loss is at 2 or less.

Drive 1 :
Power On Hours : 16286
Total LBAs Written : 8,726 GB
Total LBA's Read : 6,7428 GB

Drive 2 :
Power On Hours : 12391
Total LBAs Written : 5,808 GB
Total LBA's Read : 58,942 GB


Drive 3 :
Power On Hours : 11129
Total LBAs Written : 2,408 GB
Total LBA's Read : 4,156 GB

Drive 4 :
Power On Hours : 9974
Total LBAs Written : 9,142 GB
Total LBA's Read : 12,070 GB

Warranty on each drive is January 2019 - March 2020
 
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