Wow that is some great information, VERY helpful! I'm a bit irked that this type of info is not more readily available, I even consulted with Eldon when 2016 was just coming out and I don't think even MS really knew what would work properly, I was just told to use enterprise drives. One of my clusters has 8x PM863 drives and sure enough they show IsPowerProtected = False... No wonder I've never been terribly happy with write speed, it works well enough for a couple dozen VMs but I can definitely overwhelm the system.Your primary source should be the Windows Server Catalog: Windows Server Catalog
For disk drives supporting S2D you need the chriteria Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Standard or Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Premium. For your purposes Standard is enough:
Windows Server Catalog
The difference between Standard and Premium:
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...ws_Server_2016_Software-defined_Solutions.pdf
Me personally, I like to check geizhals.de, too. They have an english site as well:
Solid State Drives (SSD) with Special features: Power-Loss Protection Skinflint Price Comparison UK
Some of the newer products may not be certified by Microsoft yet, but still provide it and be visible that way.
Hope that helps you.
I have been going through the links you gave me and am having trouble finding any drives that are reasonably priced on eBay that are listed on MS's site. Any suggestions? I would love to get a hold of some M.2 NVMe drives but SATA would work as well. It looks like (correct me if I'm wrong) the PM863 drives don't qualify but the PM863a drives might?
Thanks!