480GB M.2 with PLP finally under $100

[chip]

There were some details in this thread.
https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...write-no-parity-nvme-cache.20166/#post-193488

oh...so I'm about two weeks behind the curve. I was planning to use these for ZFS SIL in the home lab anyway, so will see how they cope with that.

 

[Jeff Robertson]

From the research I've done it looks like at least MS doesn't certify these drives as having a full end to end PLP implementation. When checking the drives with powershell they show as not being power protected which means with S2D it has to wait for a full commit of the data before moving on which drastically slows down the process. If a drive is capable of end to end PLP once the data is transferred to the drive the OS can move on knowing that no matter what the data will be committed to flash even during a power failure. It looks like a LOT of samsung drives have "PLP lite" or an implementation that only partially protects the data making it unsuitable for S2D and possible vsan...