HOT HGST HUSMM8040's for $99, qty avail.

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frogtech

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I mean in all honesty, how slick of a deal is this compared to those Samsung enterprise NVMe drives, PM953 I think? Those were 960GB at least, 179 (or less if I recall). Basically the same performance.
 

DRAGONKZ

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You could use a USA freight forwarding service like Shipto or MyUsa or others and ship them to a USA mailbox. Only problem is if you have to return drives to USA and freight forwarders will need to unpack drives (static charge potential) to take pictures if you want goods insurance. Hopefully they are packaged in clear anti static bags. There is a thread here about freight forwarding l started in this Deals thread. Sorry l'm on mobile or l'd look it up for you.
I lined up UStoOZ to buy/ship on my behalf but it looks like they didn’t do it before they ran out.

If anyone here bought lots and wants to sell 4-6 of them and ship to AUS drop me a PM.

Thanks
 

Geran

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thank goodness... i was so tempted to pickup 26 of these and a another 24x bay server with SAS3. i was waiting for you guys spend your money so i wouldn't....
Which server would you get to run this if you bought them?
 

frogtech

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Supermicro 216, B variant with the 2 rear hotswap trays for 26 total drive capacity
 

chinesestunna

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Aww, way too late for me and I almost bought from the sneaky ebay "listing out we found a similar for you" seller with people stating hit and miss drives...
Anyway thanks for the wallet save :p
Lol this is my life on "Great Deals", constantly toggling between 2 emotions of "Dang missed that hot deal, :(" and "Thank god that's all gone, dodged a bullet to wallet :)"
 

Rain

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Mine arrived today! Here is the SMART info from the first drive I plugged in:

Code:
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               HGST
Product:              HUSMM8040ASS205
Revision:             D252
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        400,088,457,216 bytes [400 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  4096 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate:        Solid State Device
Form Factor:          2.5 inches
Logical Unit id:  
Serial number:    
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Wed Aug  1 19:14:39 2018 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Percentage used endurance indicator: 0%
Current Drive Temperature:     24 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        70 C

Manufactured in week 04 of year 2015
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  0
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  0
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  0
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  0
defect list format 6 unknown
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate) cache information
  Blocks sent to initiator = 6401917190144

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0        401.104           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0        800.177           0

Non-medium error count:        0

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Background short  Completed                   -      18                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 2774 seconds [46.2 minutes]
(Note: This is on a SAS2 HBA)

I started the SMART test right after the drive was inserted. 18 hours is really low!

The only interesting thing with these drives is the "Gigabytes Processed" amount doesn't seem to save. When data is read or written, the amounts listed update, but after a power cycle or after simply waiting a few minutes, they reset back to ~400GB/~800GB. Very strange!
 
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Rain

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@BLinux Certainly!

Code:
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               HGST
Product:              HUSMM8040ASS205
Revision:             D252
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        400,088,457,216 bytes [400 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  4096 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate:        Solid State Device
Form Factor:          2.5 inches
Logical Unit id:   
Serial number:     
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Wed Aug  1 19:51:45 2018 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled
Read Cache is:        Enabled
Writeback Cache is:   Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Percentage used endurance indicator: 0%
Current Drive Temperature:     26 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        70 C

Manufactured in week 04 of year 2015
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  0
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  0
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  0
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  0
defect list format 6 unknown
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate) cache information
  Blocks sent to initiator = 6401917190144

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0        801.195           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0        800.177           0

Non-medium error count:        0

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Background short  Completed                   -      18                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 2774 seconds [46.2 minutes]

Background scan results log
  Status: no scans active
    Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 18:37 [1117 minutes]
    Number of background scans performed: 0,  scan progress: 0.00%
    Number of background medium scans performed: 0

Protocol Specific port log page for SAS SSP
relative target port id = 1
  generation code = 1
  number of phys = 1
  phy identifier = 0
    attached device type: expander device
    attached reason: SMP phy control function
    reason: unknown
    negotiated logical link rate: phy enabled; 6 Gbps
    attached initiator port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    attached target port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=1
    SAS address =
    attached SAS address =
    attached phy identifier = 14
    Invalid DWORD count = 0
    Running disparity error count = 0
    Loss of DWORD synchronization = 2
    Phy reset problem = 0
    Phy event descriptors:
     Invalid word count: 0
     Running disparity error count: 0
     Loss of dword synchronization count: 2
     Phy reset problem count: 0
relative target port id = 2
  generation code = 1
  number of phys = 1
  phy identifier = 1
    attached device type: no device attached
    attached reason: unknown
    reason: power on
    negotiated logical link rate: phy enabled; unknown
    attached initiator port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    attached target port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    SAS address =
    attached SAS address = 0x0
    attached phy identifier = 0
    Invalid DWORD count = 0
    Running disparity error count = 0
    Loss of DWORD synchronization = 0
    Phy reset problem = 0
    Phy event descriptors:
     Invalid word count: 0
     Running disparity error count: 0
     Loss of dword synchronization count: 0
     Phy reset problem count: 0
I initiated a complete read of the drive after my last post, power-cycled, and this time the "Gigabytes processed" saved. I'll dig around some more, but that was definitely kind of strange that it didn't seem to be saving!
 

BLinux

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@BLinux Certainly!

Code:
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               HGST
Product:              HUSMM8040ASS205
Revision:             D252
Compliance:           SPC-4
User Capacity:        400,088,457,216 bytes [400 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Physical block size:  4096 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate:        Solid State Device
Form Factor:          2.5 inches
Logical Unit id:  
Serial number:    
Device type:          disk
Transport protocol:   SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is:        Wed Aug  1 19:51:45 2018 EDT
SMART support is:     Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is:     Enabled
Temperature Warning:  Enabled
Read Cache is:        Enabled
Writeback Cache is:   Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK

Percentage used endurance indicator: 0%
Current Drive Temperature:     26 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        70 C

Manufactured in week 04 of year 2015
Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  0
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  0
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  0
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  0
defect list format 6 unknown
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate) cache information
  Blocks sent to initiator = 6401917190144

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0          0        801.195           0
write:         0        0         0         0          0        800.177           0

Non-medium error count:        0

SMART Self-test log
Num  Test              Status                 segment  LifeTime  LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
     Description                              number   (hours)
# 1  Background short  Completed                   -      18                 - [-   -    -]

Long (extended) Self Test duration: 2774 seconds [46.2 minutes]

Background scan results log
  Status: no scans active
    Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 18:37 [1117 minutes]
    Number of background scans performed: 0,  scan progress: 0.00%
    Number of background medium scans performed: 0

Protocol Specific port log page for SAS SSP
relative target port id = 1
  generation code = 1
  number of phys = 1
  phy identifier = 0
    attached device type: expander device
    attached reason: SMP phy control function
    reason: unknown
    negotiated logical link rate: phy enabled; 6 Gbps
    attached initiator port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    attached target port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=1
    SAS address =
    attached SAS address =
    attached phy identifier = 14
    Invalid DWORD count = 0
    Running disparity error count = 0
    Loss of DWORD synchronization = 2
    Phy reset problem = 0
    Phy event descriptors:
     Invalid word count: 0
     Running disparity error count: 0
     Loss of dword synchronization count: 2
     Phy reset problem count: 0
relative target port id = 2
  generation code = 1
  number of phys = 1
  phy identifier = 1
    attached device type: no device attached
    attached reason: unknown
    reason: power on
    negotiated logical link rate: phy enabled; unknown
    attached initiator port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    attached target port: ssp=0 stp=0 smp=0
    SAS address =
    attached SAS address = 0x0
    attached phy identifier = 0
    Invalid DWORD count = 0
    Running disparity error count = 0
    Loss of DWORD synchronization = 0
    Phy reset problem = 0
    Phy event descriptors:
     Invalid word count: 0
     Running disparity error count: 0
     Loss of dword synchronization count: 0
     Phy reset problem count: 0
I initiated a complete read of the drive after my last post, power-cycled, and this time the "Gigabytes processed" saved. I'll dig around some more, but that was definitely kind of strange that it didn't seem to be saving!
Wow.. only about 18 hours of use? Practically brand new...
 

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It almost looks like these were a batch of netapp spares that someone liquidated... those hours on, and writes used seem to be from being "wiped"
 

Gerald Laurence

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I am glad they were out of stock when I looked on eBay. My debit card has been hotter than my drives after a parity check lately.
 

Rain

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Let me know if anyone else's drives don't seem to save the amount of data read/written between power cycles. Won't be an issue once they're running 24/7, but it seems weird. It happens to every drive I've received semi-randomly.
 
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Finally got around to benchmarking these. Quick and dirty benchmark on a RAID 0 of 8x of these. Connected to an Adaptec 8885e HBA (12gbps per port, connected via breakout cables, no expander) on a PCI-e 3.0 x8 slot). Standard Windows RAID.

HGST_Raid0_8D.png

Will be doing fine tuning in the next few days.
 

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Finally got around to benchmarking these. Quick and dirty benchmark on a RAID 0 of 8x of these. Connected to an Adaptec 8885e HBA (12gbps per port, connected via breakout cables, no expander) on a PCI-e 3.0 x8 slot). Standard Windows RAID.

View attachment 9068

Will be doing fine tuning in the next few days.
Hmmm...

1) what's up with the massive drop off after I/O size > 4MB?
2) why are reads slower than writes?