Fusion-io ioDrive II - 1.2TB+ drives <0.50/GB

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MiniKnight

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This spring there were a bunch of Fusion-io ioDrive II's out there for $550 or so that were in the 785GB size. Now there's several I believe may be mislabeled on ebay and selling cheaply.
1.3TB ioDrive II for $529 ending tomorrow: Fusion-io ioDrive SSD Accelerator Drive MLC F00-001-1T30-CS-0001 1.2TB 1.3TB
1.2-1.3 $599 also no bids ending tomorrow: Fusion-io ioDrive SSD MLC F00-001-1T30-CS-0001 1.2TB 1.3TB Solid State Drive

Here's another one - $648 same seller 10 avail with best offer: Fusion-io ioDrive MLC PCIe x4 F00-001-1T30-CS-0001 1.2TB 1.3TB SSD Solid State

So it looks like the newer ioDrive II's are now at or under $0.50/gb.
 
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T_Minus

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Competing offers: 5


Glad I'm in no need looks like ya'll are fighting for them now :p :p
 

Patrick

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Seller countered me $500 ea for 2. Still a good deal.
 

PnoT

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It's odd that you'll only find that exact part # on their eBay ad and where one says "II" and the other doesn't. The closest part #, I can find, is F00-001-1t20-cs-0001 which is a real deal Fusion ioDrive II card. I'm a bit confused at this point and finding these model numbers for fusion cards has been a PITA to be honest. I wish there was a master sheet somewhere :)

Update: I found another eBay auction, by another user, that points to same part # but then says that the MFG part # is SDFABAMOD-1T20-SF1

If you look that up it states the same Fusion ioDrive II...:confused:
 

PnoT

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My card arrived today and I installed the latest Fusion-IO drivers and updated the firmware while I was at it.

Code:
C:\Windows\system32>fio-status -a

Found 1 ioMemory device in this system
Driver version: 3.2.11 build 1581

Adapter: Single Adapter
        Fusion-io ioDrive2 1.30TB, Product Number:F00-001-1T30-CS-0001, SN:x, FIO SN:x
        ioDrive2 Mono Adapter, PN:PA003717019
        SMP(AVR) Versions: App Version: 1.0.22.0, Boot Version: 1.0.8.1
        External Power: NOT connected
        PCIe Bus voltage: avg 11.99V
        PCIe Bus current: avg 0.90A
        PCIe Bus power: avg 13.16W
        PCIe Power limit threshold: 24.75W
        PCIe slot available power: unavailable
        Connected ioMemory modules:
          fct2: SN:x

fct2    Attached
        ioDrive Controller, SN:x
!! ---> There are active errors or warnings on this device!  Read below for details.
        ioDrive Controller
        SMP(AVR) Versions: App Version: 1.0.34.0, Boot Version: 1.0.7.1
        Located in slot 0 Center of ioDrive2 Mono Adapter SN:x
        Powerloss protection: protected
        PCI:02:00.0
        Vendor:1aed, Device:2001, Sub vendor:1aed, Sub device:2001
        Firmware v7.1.17, rev 116786 Public
        1294.00 GBytes device size
        Format: v500, 2527343750 sectors of 512 bytes
        PCIe slot available power: 75.00W
        PCIe negotiated link: 4 lanes at 5.0 Gt/sec each, 2000.00 MBytes/sec total
        Internal temperature: 76.29 degC, max 76.78 degC
        Internal voltage: avg 1.02V, max 1.02V
        Aux voltage: avg 2.48V, max 2.48V
        Reserve space status: Healthy; Reserves: 100.00%, warn at 10.00%
        Active media: 100.00%
        Rated PBW: 17.00 PB, 89.71% remaining
        Lifetime data volumes:
           Physical bytes written: 1,748,532,830,339,536
           Physical bytes read   : 2,513,204,282,969,624
        RAM usage:
           Current: 394,816,000 bytes
           Peak   : 394,820,160 bytes
        Contained VSUs:
          fct2: ID:0, UUID:7661628e-9675-ea4c-bd17-79b05f44ba42

        ACTIVE WARNINGS:
            The temperature of this device is approaching a critical threshold.

fct2    State: Online, Type: block device
        ID:0, UUID:7661628e-9675-ea4c-bd17-79b05f44ba42
        1294.00 GBytes device size
        Format: 2527343750 sectors of 512 bytes


I was hoping the numbers would be a tad higher like some of my duos but for $400 and the amount of space I'm content.

Did anyone else snatch these @ 400?
 

T_Minus

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2PB almost.

And the warning was likely from that benchmark making the temps sky-rocket.. or was it an old warning?

That's the most "PBW" I've seen on a drive yet.
 

PnoT

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2PB almost.

And the warning was likely from that benchmark making the temps sky-rocket.. or was it an old warning?

That's the most "PBW" I've seen on a drive yet.
The cut n paste was from an old warning from firing it up in my desktop first ;)

In my lab server it's sitting at 53C
 

Patrick

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That's the most "PBW" I've seen on a drive yet.
Only 15PB of endurance left...

Usually those numbers are at 4K random writes but some vendors differ. Still, if you did nothing but 1GB/s sequential writes to that drive 24x7, and the PBW is for sequential not random (usually sequential is much easier on drives) then you only have about half a year worth of writes left on it.

Nice find!!!!
 

PRIMEZ

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Can you please send me the link for the windows drivers? Thanks.

My card arrived today and I installed the latest Fusion-IO drivers and updated the firmware while I was at it.

Code:
C:\Windows\system32>fio-status -a

Found 1 ioMemory device in this system
Driver version: 3.2.11 build 1581

Adapter: Single Adapter
        Fusion-io ioDrive2 1.30TB, Product Number:F00-001-1T30-CS-0001, SN:x, FIO SN:x
        ioDrive2 Mono Adapter, PN:PA003717019
        SMP(AVR) Versions: App Version: 1.0.22.0, Boot Version: 1.0.8.1
        External Power: NOT connected
        PCIe Bus voltage: avg 11.99V
        PCIe Bus current: avg 0.90A
        PCIe Bus power: avg 13.16W
        PCIe Power limit threshold: 24.75W
        PCIe slot available power: unavailable
        Connected ioMemory modules:
          fct2: SN:x

fct2    Attached
        ioDrive Controller, SN:x
!! ---> There are active errors or warnings on this device!  Read below for details.
        ioDrive Controller
        SMP(AVR) Versions: App Version: 1.0.34.0, Boot Version: 1.0.7.1
        Located in slot 0 Center of ioDrive2 Mono Adapter SN:x
        Powerloss protection: protected
        PCI:02:00.0
        Vendor:1aed, Device:2001, Sub vendor:1aed, Sub device:2001
        Firmware v7.1.17, rev 116786 Public
        1294.00 GBytes device size
        Format: v500, 2527343750 sectors of 512 bytes
        PCIe slot available power: 75.00W
        PCIe negotiated link: 4 lanes at 5.0 Gt/sec each, 2000.00 MBytes/sec total
        Internal temperature: 76.29 degC, max 76.78 degC
        Internal voltage: avg 1.02V, max 1.02V
        Aux voltage: avg 2.48V, max 2.48V
        Reserve space status: Healthy; Reserves: 100.00%, warn at 10.00%
        Active media: 100.00%
        Rated PBW: 17.00 PB, 89.71% remaining
        Lifetime data volumes:
           Physical bytes written: 1,748,532,830,339,536
           Physical bytes read   : 2,513,204,282,969,624
        RAM usage:
           Current: 394,816,000 bytes
           Peak   : 394,820,160 bytes
        Contained VSUs:
          fct2: ID:0, UUID:7661628e-9675-ea4c-bd17-79b05f44ba42

        ACTIVE WARNINGS:
            The temperature of this device is approaching a critical threshold.

fct2    State: Online, Type: block device
        ID:0, UUID:7661628e-9675-ea4c-bd17-79b05f44ba42
        1294.00 GBytes device size
        Format: 2527343750 sectors of 512 bytes


I was hoping the numbers would be a tad higher like some of my duos but for $400 and the amount of space I'm content.

Did anyone else snatch these @ 400?
 

Joseph Nunn

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Wow the price has been jacked up sadly. I will watch and wait on Ebay for the time being.

Does anyone know if it possible to use this drive as a boot device? Maybe on Linux?

Thanks!

Joseph