1.6TB Intel DC P3605 (P3600) - $800

[wildpig1234]

make sure to run ssdlife on all "new" drives

 

[Hank C]

Intel DC P3605 Series 1.6 TB,Internal,2.5" with Pcie Adpator intel P3600

Intel DC P3605 Series 1.6 TB,Internal,2.5" with Pcie Adpator P3600


are these good deals?

 

[Patrick]

@Hank C very good deals and need their own thread.

 

[Jin]

Fyi, I just bought the pcie version of ssd from the same seller on ebay. It has intel warranty until 2020 and intel ssd toolbox shows full info.

 

[nephri]

i'm very tempted....

 

[andytyk]

No smart info.
no warranty

Intel ssd toolbox and data center tool can't display life reaming info due to the OEM firmware.

These drives have Intel warranty.

View attachment 2523

Intel sent a replaced drive due to firmware bug on RA12 version cause driver run into Disable Logical ASSERT Mode. The latest firmware is RA13.

Bought one of the AIC ones (seller accepted a BO of $650) and installed it today. I see impossible amounts of writes reported by both the SSD Tool Box and SMART (like ~2PB from some testing over 3 hours), I assume the Oracle firmware is reporting writes in different unit and that's throwing the Tool Box / SMART off? Or is there something horribly wrong going on?

 

[aethervisor]

Anybody else have luck finding the firmware for this? I could only find it on some Chinese PCEva.com.cn site that requires an invite.

 

[neeyuese]

Anybody else have luck finding the firmware for this? I could only find it on some Chinese PCEva.com.cn site that requires an invite.

I am the admin from PCEVA.com.cn，Please find firmware files attached.

You will need to use NVMe-cli(under Linux) to update the firmware.

 

[aethervisor]

Thanks! Looks like I might need to do it through Linux, tried doing it with the native esxi NVMe update commands but it says:

[root@esxi04lab:~] esxcli nvme device firmware download -A vmhba0 -f /tmp/8DV1RA11.bin -s 1
Failed to commit downloaded firmware to slot 1, 0x2

 

[unclerunkle]

Thanks! Looks like I might need to do it through Linux, tried doing it with the native esxi NVMe update commands but it says:

[root@esxi04lab:~] esxcli nvme device firmware download -A vmhba0 -f /tmp/8DV1RA11.bin -s 1
Failed to commit downloaded firmware to slot 1, 0x2

Please keep us updated. I have one of these as well and probably should do a firmware update too.

Here are the firmware changes in case anyone is interested: Minimum Supported Card Firmware Version - Oracle® Flash Accelerator F160 PCIe Card and Oracle 1.6 TB NVMe SSD Product Notes

This is worth noting too:

• If your Oracle Flash Accelerator F160 PCIe Cards have RA10 or lower, you must upgrade to RA11 before upgrading to RA12 or RA13.
  
  
• If your Oracle Flash Accelerator F160 PCIe Cards have RA11 or RA12, you can upgrade directly to RA13.
  

 

[neeyuese]

Thanks! Looks like I might need to do it through Linux, tried doing it with the native esxi NVMe update commands but it says:

[root@esxi04lab:~] esxcli nvme device firmware download -A vmhba0 -f /tmp/8DV1RA11.bin -s 1
Failed to commit downloaded firmware to slot 1, 0x2

 

[aethervisor]

Success! I used Ubuntu 16 to do this. So quick steps:
Add universe to apt-get using sudo apt-add-repository universe
apt-get update
apt-get install nvme-cli
Download the 11 version firmware, activate the firmware as shown in the picture posted by neeyuese, if that goes well you can issue a sudo nvme reset /dev/nvme0 command for the firmware to take effect without rebooting. To verify it has updated run sudo nvme fw-load /dev/nvme0 and make sure it is on version 11. Repeat for version 13.

 

[Rand__]

Still available - I think i better link them here before I have to get them
www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-Oracle-1-6TB-Flash-Accelerator-7090698-F160-Card-Intel-SSD-DC-P3605-Series-/302023678029
Intel SSD DC P3605 Series SSDPEDME016T4S 1.6TB NVMe PCIe 3 MLC IFDPC5EA3ORC1.6T | eBay

 

[jerrytsao]

On Ubuntu

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install nvme-cli
sudo nvme list
sudo nvme fw-download /dev/nvme__ --fw='/__/8DV1RA11.bin'
sudo nvme fw-activate /dev/nvme__ --action=1
sudo nvme reset /dev/nvme__
sudo nvme list
sudo nvme fw-download /dev/nvme__ --fw='/__/8DV1RA13.bin'
sudo nvme fw-activate /dev/nvme__ --action=1
sudo nvme reset /dev/nvme__

 

[bleomycin]

How do these compare performance wise to the intel 750 for something like VM storage on zfs? Seems to perform worse at low queue depths?

 

[azev]

How do these compare performance wise to the intel 750 for something like VM storage on zfs? Seems to perform worse at low queue depths?

for sure this drive have much more endurance than intel 750. I cant say which would perform better, but typically enterprise would perform better in a server environment.

 

[jeffmcjunkin]

Wow, the seller "vineandbrown" accepted a $600 offer. Looks like I found my new workstation boot drive.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Rand__]

Wow, the seller "vineandbrown" accepted a $600 offer. Looks like I found my new workstation boot drive.

Which of the links was that? Can't find him/her

 

[jerrytsao]

Which of the links was that? Can't find him/her

Sun Oracle 1.6TB Flash Accelerator 7090698 F160 Card Intel SSD DC P3605 Series | eBay

Although looks like a much older version with Rev 02 P/N & RA02 FW, pictured with 2014-WK26 manufacture date.

 

[Rand__]

Ah single drive only, ok, thanks