[FS] Oracle Samsung PM1725A PCIe NVMe 3.2TB HHHL - Price lowered

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XeonSam

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I have Oracle Samsung PM1725A 3.2TB PCIE Gen3 x8 NVMe cards for sale: $400/ea with shipping fees negotiable.

Pieces remaining: 6 --> 5

Samsung P/N: MZPLK3T2HCJL-000U4
Oracle P/N: 7317693

These were recently used in Dell servers and just recently retired. They all have from 93% to 97% life and run fine.
I can provide long brackets for those who need them, just message me.

Payoneer preferred paypall accepted.

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Whoa... That's a lot of writes! This particular "F320" 3.2TB card is very popular on STH and other forums. We've seen 1 PB equate to 1% of drive writes, according to the SMART outputs of several samples. So, 93% remaining means 7 PB was written to this drive. Wow

Then again, it's not like you'll ever wear the drive out before you die (yes, drives are starting to outlast people now). :)
 
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No issues with the "A" of this drive? (I have a couple and still trying to figure out if anything to be worried about)
We have "B" variant deployed, and 0 issues there.
 
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No issues with the "A" of this drive? (I have a couple and still trying to figure out if anything to be worried about)
We have "B" variant deployed, and 0 issues there.
From what I've seen, no. Then again, I am new to these drives as of about a month ago and i've only been reading the other threads on it.
 
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From what I've seen, no. Then again, I am new to these drives as of about a month ago and i've only been reading the other threads on it.
The "A" did have issues there's threads on it, and I replied checking-in to see how they were going (no reply yet).
I'm not sure which FW Version remedied the issue though, it's not a "can't be fixed issue" from what I gathered.
 
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The "A" did have issues there's threads on it, and I replied checking-in to see how they were going (no reply yet).
I'm not sure which FW Version remedied the issue though, it's not a "can't be fixed issue" from what I gathered.
I must have missed those threads. Doh! We do t really know if this is an PM1725, PM1725a, or 1725b.

I'd say though that these drives' firmware are mostly fine as-is: they have had several Petabytes written to them!

What exactly were the issues with "a"? In not finding threads on it.
 
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I'm not seeing any issues as of yet, I pulled the power out a few times after reading this post... I really hope the problem doesn't end up occuring later.

I'm currently using one in a R730 dell server I'm setting up; the fans are stupid loud because the box doesn't know what the damn thing is.

Anyone know if flashing a dell/samsung firmware on these things will lower the fan speeds?
It's not a problem once the server finds it home in the datacenter but before then I feel like I'm sitting next to a jet engine.
 
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You can IPMI the fans down. Be careful. You can overheat the CPU if the fans are too low. People often make scripts to automatically ramp up the fans if the CPU temp goes way up. I've ran my r730xd at low fan speeds (15% duty cycle) with tons of devices for years (nvme drives, etc). Just don't do anything crazy on the CPUs or use L versions of E5 cpus. See below for a start:

Set fan speed to 25%
ipmitool -I lanplus -H SERVERS_IP_HERE -U IDRAC_USERNAME -P 'IDRAC_PASSWORD_HERE' raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x19

Set fan speed to 30%
ipmitool -I lanplus -H SERVERS_IP_HERE -U IDRAC_USERNAME -P 'IDRAC_PASSWORD_HERE' raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x1E

Set fan speed to 50%
ipmitool -I lanplus -H SERVERS_IP_HERE -U IDRAC_USERNAME -P 'IDRAC_PASSWORD_HERE' raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x32

Set fan speed to 60%
ipmitool -I lanplus -H SERVERS_IP_HERE -U IDRAC_USERNAME -P 'IDRAC_PASSWORD_HERE' raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x3C

Set fan speed to 100%
ipmitool -I lanplus -H SERVERS_IP_HERE -U IDRAC_USERNAME -P 'IDRAC_PASSWORD_HERE' raw 0x30 0x30 0x02 0xff 0x64
 
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Thanks for the quick response!
I don't want to manually set the fan speed as this will end up going into a datacenter where everthing is loud. But great to know the command line.

The server has a bunch of stuff inside which needs needs the cooling... and yea, the CPU's are 135W or 150W each so I'm concerned there too.
 
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You can lower the fans while you work on the device. When you're ready to move the device to a datacenter set them to 100% which will make the bios take over again.
 
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Beauty! You are a hero! I was just responding on whether I could reset to bios when you answered my question
 
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I replaced some qlogic NICs from my server and realized that the problem wasn't the NVMe SSDs... it was the NICs! And these were Dell NICs as well! I had no clue 25/10G NIC's required so much cooling!

It no longer sounds like a jet engine... but I still struggle with hearing anything outside of my man-den....urm.... lab.
 
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Yeah, that's one of the reason I've not tried to move to 10Gb while cooling is still a factor in the summer. Winter is a different story though. :D