Lot of cheap $280 1.2TB ssd Fusion IO

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briandm81

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I missed the 280 deal. I've bought from the Sony seller you linked to before, so I picked one up from them.

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realtomatoes

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FreeNas or ESX for me atm - still researching;)

ESX shouldnt be an issue it seem - but not on hcl it seems
Did it work with esxi without installing drivers?
What's the perf like?


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Marsh

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I always put some cheap Fusion-IO SSD in my lab host.

640GB Fusion-IO card with 10PB write endurance for $100.
I am 62 years old, if I write 1TB per day. It would last me my lifetime. :)

For esxi 6.5u1
esxcli software acceptance set --level=CommunitySupported
esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/libvsl-600-1.0.0-3.2.15.1699.zip
esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/scsi-iomemory-vsl-60L-3.2.15.1699-offline_bundle-5351806.zip
reboot
esxcli software vib list
 
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Marsh

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@realtomatoes

Sometimes , you are lucky , I would have paid the asking price $110 each, but the seller accepted $100 each.
I am a sucker for 640GB Fusion-IO SSD for low $100 range.

see
Fusion-io ioDrive 640GB,Internal (FS1-004-640-CS-0001) SSD
http://www.ebay.com/itm/182704381055
These drives are 10PB write endurance , with 97.7% life left.
Here are some interesting stat
PCIe Bus power: avg 4.67W max 7.76W
Rated PBW: 10.00 PB, 97.77% remaining

These are PCIe-2.0 interface, do not expect same performance as the NVMe SSD.
I ran this performance test on a 10years old AMD x2 550 CPU computer. ( I used it do all my firmware flashing here )

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CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : Crystal Dew World
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes

Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 836.979 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 584.712 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 197.990 MB/s [ 48337.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 271.276 MB/s [ 66229.5 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 755.885 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 563.506 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 58.848 MB/s [ 14367.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 104.050 MB/s [ 25402.8 IOPS]

Test : 8192 MiB [E: 0.0% (0.2/595.9 GiB)] (x3) [Interval=5 sec]
Date : 2017/08/12 2:20:17
OS : Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter (Full installation) [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)
 
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frogtech

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Will storage devices like this be normally usable in the the context of say something like a normal disk drive that can be shown/given to vSAN, ScaleIO, Storage Spaces Direct, etc?
 

acquacow

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I have a bunch of these in a storage space right now. They just show up to the OS as a block device once the driver is loaded, so as long as you are running a supported OS, you can put any other software layer above them.