960GB m.2 NVMe with Power Loss Protection

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MiniKnight

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These just dropped to $342 from $360.

*NEW* SK Hynix PE3110 960GB (Almost 1TB) Enterprise M.2 PCIe Gen3 SSD 3D NAND V2 | eBay

1.3 drive writes/ day (so 1.2-1.3tb / day)

They're only 1.7GB/s read 0.75GB/s write but still NVMe and m.2. Not many drives out there with PLP too.

Looking at them I see they're 22110 not 2280. mitx I don't see many 22110's but Flex ATX Xeon D boards (like the New Flex ATX Supermicro Xeon D motherboards ) can take 22110 so that's hot for those of us building storage servers.
 

T_Minus

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Not a bad drive if you need one or two but IMHO with that crappy performance (it is NVME enterprise afterall) I'd go SAS3... much easier to add more of them, easier to be cabled, don't require certain size mobo, etc, etc...

HGST SAS3 will smoke that thing on writes (2x perf) and reads is pretty close to the same depending which revision SAS3. Around 100 bucks less per-drive when you can find the deals, and 800gb usable vs 960... but IMHO a much much higher quality drive.

I REALLY REALLY wish Intel could get inventory of their lower-end read focus NVME!!!
 

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Before anyone pulls the trigger on those SK drives, I'd be willing to cut a much better deal on 960GB enterprise PM953's (w/plp) which (in my machine) provide the following performance (test data larger than drive cache for each run):

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Cutha

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Before anyone pulls the trigger on those SK drives, I'd be willing to cut a much better deal on 960GB enterprise PM953's (w/plp) which (in my machine) provide the following performance (test data larger than drive cache for each run):
How much of a better deal for 6 of them?
 

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Before anyone pulls the trigger on those SK drives, I'd be willing to cut a much better deal on 960GB enterprise PM953's (w/plp) which (in my machine) provide the following performance (test data larger than drive cache for each run):

x8:




x4:


x1:


How do you have these hooked up?
 

AJXCR

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Any way to hook these up to a machine without nvme drivebay?

-J

As far as I'm aware not in that quantity. There are a few 2x sff8643 cards out so 4 cards would get you to 8. When the Broadcom 9400-16i comes out soon you could get to 4x drives/card.
 

Rand__

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Any way to hook these up to a machine without nvme drivebay?
If you got 8 PCI-e 3 4x slots, no problem ;)

I think I saw a 4*4x m.2 in x16 card a couple of weeks back which would make this far more realistic.
I know anything about price/availability though
Edit
This is one, I thought there was another one on Amazon linked here in the forum somewhere:
PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for 4 M.2 SSD modules - Amfeltec

O/C there is also the HP one which is not cheap
 
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Jannis Jacobsen

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If you got 8 PCI-e 3 4x slots, no problem ;)

I think I saw a 4*4x m.2 in x16 card a couple of weeks back which would make this far more realistic.
I know anything about price/availability though
Edit
This is one, I thought there was another one on Amazon linked here in the forum somewhere:
PCI Express Gen 3 Carrier Board for 4 M.2 SSD modules - Amfeltec

O/C there is also the HP one which is not cheap
I was thinking of the drives a couple posts further up, not the m.2 drives

-Jannis