SAMSUNG PM863 960gb $195

[Robert Q]

I saw this and thought some might be interested. Ya, a low number of transactions and from Israel, but shipping is free and at 0.20/GB thought a few might be willing to take the risk...

Samsung 960GB SSD SATAIII 6Gbps MLC P/N MZ-7LM9600-HCHP-00005 Model MZ-7LM9600

Enjoy

 

[maze]

Bought one. Seller posted within an hour after payment cleared.

 

[imchipz]

Now this seems like one heck of a deal, lets see what happens to maze when it arrives

 

[Mkvarner]

If I'm not wrong these drives should have at least 2 years of warranty?

 

[josh]

If I'm not wrong these drives should have at least 2 years of warranty?

Listing removed

 

[Mkvarner]

Listing removed

What? I can still see it.

 

[josh]

Weird. There was an error earlier. Now it's back. Is there some specs on the endurance? Anyone managed to get real SSDs from these Israel sellers?

 

[marv]

Is there some specs on the endurance?

960GB ones have 1400 TB endurance. And it goes linearly with capacity. MSRP for these is 550USD.

 

[josh]

960GB ones have 1400 TB endurance. And it goes linearly with capacity. MSRP for these is 550USD.

The problem is the dodgy Israel location. I remember there were people who tried buying 15000rpm SSDs from an Israel seller as well. Are fake SSDs a thing?

 

[Mkvarner]

Bought one. Should recive it within 2 weeks. How can I verify if the drive is genuine or fake?

 

[Flintstone]

I also bought one (as mentioned in another thread about this). I have bought stuff from Israel before with success, but this is kind of on the edge of "if it looks to be to good of a deal" equation - although if he has like 50 of these he wont get them sold in a flash with $300 or so price...

 

[Flintstone]

Besides - isn´t this kind of a rare item to fake? Intel s37xx drives would be faster to fake/sell. I had to look up this model to even know it was a enterprise model. PayPal should protect (probably) if there is a issue.

 

[raileon]

I grabbed two of these, we'll see what comes. My experience with ordering from Israel has been mixed. Mostly good but I did get a drive once that was sold as new then showed almost 6k power hours with very little written. Seemed like an odd combination. Seller said there had been a mixup on the new/used thing and we fixed things.

 

[josh]

I grabbed two of these, we'll see what comes. My experience with ordering from Israel has been mixed. Mostly good but I did get a drive once that was sold as new then showed almost 6k power hours with very little written. Seemed like an odd combination. Seller said there had been a mixup on the new/used thing and we fixed things.

Still looks too good to be true and makes one wonder where they get these from

 

[Flintstone]

As far as I know, MSRP on these is about $550 and on the s3710 $620 or so (going now on ebay for $175). So yes it is a good deal, but I don´t think this seller would have sold many at a $300 price point.

For all we know this drive is cheaper without tax in Israel than it is in the US due to market segmentation.

My problem with the US deals is that the s3710 at $175 turns quickly out to be around $275 when it arrives at my door due to high shipping prices from US to Norway and 25% tax on both item and shipping + $20 clearing fee from DHL/UPS or whatever.

 

[maze]

Seems like mine might be stuck in customs by the looks of it. We'll see how that turns out

But, quite fast shipping so far.. positive

 

[Flintstone]

I picked up mine today.

Anyone want to help me make sense of the SMART besides the obvious ones?

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       5127
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       17
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     0x0013   100   099   005    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
180 Unused_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       4877
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0013   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032   061   061   000    Old_age   Always       -       39
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
202 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
235 Unknown_Attribute       0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       13
241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       234743
242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       269497

 

[T_Minus]

@FLinstone that smart data looks like all the obvious ones ?

 

[Flintstone]

Probably, I´m not used to look at SSD data - so I don´t know if there should be other SMART data not on the list that I should grab. Sorry for the confusion.

Is LBA_Written always in MB? If so this drive really hasn´t scratched the surface of usage...

 

[keybored]

Picked mine up about a week and a half ago. 4000 power-on hours. 80GB written. 1700GB read. Seems like these were used to cache some static content.