WTB: 4x consumer SSD's

[Morgan Simmons]

Hello

I'm looking to purchase 4 consumer SSD's. I've been hoping to score a deal on 850 pro 128gig's, but no such luck yet. I'm not at the point yet where enterprise level drives would be beneficial to me. I just want them for tiered storage spaces, and os drives on a little home server. I just didn't want anything that was on the slower end of the scale

I appreciate your time, and all of your knowledge!

Marshall

 

[rubylaser]

Have you tried setting up a search on Ebay for these and trying to snipe a few at a low price? Best idea is bidding on a number until you win a few. Here are a couple cheap auctions.

Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB Internal 2 5" MZ 7PD128BW SSD Solid State Drive 887276001166 | eBay

Samsung 850 Pro 128GB 2 5 inch SATA III Internal SSD MZ 7KE128BW A3 | eBay

I'd also consider looking at a few other brands to widen your search net.

 

[5teve]

How well priced are the sandisk extreme pro's where you are.. i bought 2x 240gb ones for my new workstation / fileserver as boot drives in raid 0.. here in OZ they were the cheapest 'higher spec' drives i could find, cheaper than the samsungs.. and with excellent reviews.. and a 10 year warranty

I have them hooked up the the intel chipset (c226) and in raid 0 (imaged nightly) crystaldiskmark results:-
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CrystalDiskMark 4.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2015 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) : 1022.080 MB/s
Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1013.474 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 465.546 MB/s [113658.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 397.786 MB/s [ 97115.7 IOPS]
Sequential Read (T= 1) : 927.701 MB/s
Sequential Write (T= 1) : 914.397 MB/s
Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 35.386 MB/s [ 8639.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 104.964 MB/s [ 25626.0 IOPS]

Test : 16384 MiB [C: 20.3% (90.6/446.6 GiB)] (x3)
Date : 2015/07/23 9:30:10
OS : Windows 8.1 [6.3 Build 9600] (x64)

Steve

 

[acmcool]

I have one S3700 100gb and one 200gb for sale... They are fast and good endurance too..

 

[fakeng]

I would get the Samsung 850 500gb when they go on sale for under $120. Or the long lasting Sandisk Ultra series.

 

[Morgan Simmons]

Thanks everyone! I'm gonna start sniping on ebay. I haven't looked at the Sandisk Extreme yet, but it does look like they perform just as well as the Samsungs. Off to research pricing!


Thanks!

 

[Morgan Simmons]

The Sandisk ultra ii seem like a bargain at 60 bucks a pop with 500 mb seq writes. The Sandisk extreme pro's are running right around the same price as the 850 pro's here in the states

 

[T_Minus]

Someone has some 1TB Samsung (datacenter but not the high high endurance model) for sale here, I think more than 4 even, and likely better than the consumer 850 pro but I'm not sure no that myself.

 

[Morgan Simmons]

As much as I'd love them (they'd basically let me go to an all SSD setup) they are WAY out of my price range. Right now at home I only have 4 1tb drives in mirrored storage spaces and an crappy old 2.5 inch laptop drive (sata 1) as an OS drive.)

It's all slowly going to get replaced, but I don't have the resources that the build I did for work had.