seller seems to be happy to accept offers north of $200. Received a few, waiting for more. The ones I got are 90% health (which is plenty of writes left for a large 3DWPD drive), firmware MS05 and MS06. Not 100% sure they have been updated for the 32k bug, but given that I have seen those drives mentioned on forums with firmware MS01, chances are these are up-to-date firmware. Obviously if someone knows if this is the most up to date firmware, please let us know. Drive model MZILS6T4HMLS-0G5.
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seller seems to be happy to accept offers north of $200. Received a few, waiting for more. The ones I got are 90% health (which is plenty of writes left for a large 3DWPD drive), firmware MS05 and MS06. Not 100% sure they have been updated for the 32k bug, but given that I have seen those drives mentioned on forums with firmware MS01, chances are these are up-to-date firmware. Obviously if someone knows if this is the most up to date firmware, please let us know. Drive model MZILS6T4HMLS-0G5.
also available from another vendor in the same region, no idea if they are related and what price they would accept, but I would guess they come from the same lot:
Used SSD prices are only going in one direction long term! I am myself replacing drives I bought less than a year ago. Hope that won’t classify me as a trader by ebay or the tax authorities!
Taxing is based on the idea that if you bought something and then resold it for a profit that the profit should be taxed. If you sell something for less than you bought it, it's a loss, which is not taxed (but technically can be used to offset other capital gains). It can more complicated for more expensive things you bought new and took depreciation on, but otherwise even for something new if you sell it for a loss, it's a capital gains loss and not taxable. All of this is for US tax law, other regions may vary.
Well I would NOT say that it's going down across the Board, there are good Deals from Time to Time, but not 24/7 ...
Same here, I got too greedy. It was sold out before I could do another offer. I wish the seller had sent me a counteroffer.
Oh well, you win some, you lose some.
Well, it's not like I had not disclosed the floor! There will be more good deals. Plus I think we will increasingly see >6TB capacities coming to the market for cheap. Struggling to resell my 3.84TB, and I am already the cheapest price on ebay in Europe!
for UK buyers, a cheap nvme (even buy it now price is OK), but obviously an older, slower model (write speed = 1.2GB/s). Not for me given that I have unused SSDs under every pillow of my sofa. Pardon our interruption...
I know.
I was just too greedy lol. Not upset or anything, all my fault. Saw some decent 4tb E1.S listings and started researching if it's worth getting some adapters.
You seem to be finding a lot of these SSD deals. Do you have a search saved or something? Could you ping me next time you have something
I have a script that automatically searches for cheap enterprise SSDs on ebay. Saved searches tend to show up too late for the best deals, and capture too much garbage, so I maintain a long list of banned keywords and sellers. But some people are faster than me, in particular cheap 7.68TB SATA SSD tend to go in seconds while my reaction time is in minutes! But spending way too much time and money on that little game. My appetite for new disks is now close to zero, so sharing here (almost) all the good deals I find.
My two just arrived. Not sure if these are affected by the 32k/40k bug. I haven't seen concrete information that they are.
If they are, what is the minimum firmware version that has the fix?
Both came with MS03 Firmware, 4% used endurance, and around 3PB written. But at three dwpd for 5 years of endurance, I don't think it's all that much.
It came formatted as 520b and was reformatted to 512 without issue.
Smart details below:
If they are, what is the minimum firmware version that has the fix?
Both came with MS03 Firmware, 4% used endurance, and around 3PB written. But at three dwpd for 5 years of endurance, I don't think it's all that much.
It came formatted as 520b and was reformatted to 512 without issue.
Smart details below:
Code:
Disk 1
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SAMSUNG
Product: MZILT6T4HALA-0G5
Revision: MS03
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 6,401,252,745,216 bytes [6.40 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5002538b01321330
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4)
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Percentage used endurance indicator: 4%
Current Drive Temperature: 37 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 74 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 23823:18
Manufactured in week 10 of year 2021
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 37
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 0
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 0
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 0 0 0 0 0 7614029.120 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 3138148.362 0
verify: 0 0 0 0 0 0.315 0
Non-medium error count: 313
Pending defect count:0 Pending Defects
Code:
Disk 2
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SAMSUNG
Product: MZILT6T4HALA-0G5
Revision: MS03
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 6,401,252,745,216 bytes [6.40 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Physical block size: 4096 bytes
LU is resource provisioned, LBPRZ=1
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5002538b0134a750
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4)
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Percentage used endurance indicator: 4%
Current Drive Temperature: 38 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 74 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 23824:02
Manufactured in week 12 of year 2021
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 37
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 0
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 0
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 0 0 0 0 0 7491530.264 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 2879012.466 0
verify: 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0
Non-medium error count: 309
Pending defect count:0 Pending DefectsYou got upgraded! These are PM1645a, not PM1635a. A bit faster and consume less energy. You can tell from your smartctl that those were manufactured in 2021, years after the bug was discovered. So you may get some other bug, but not this one.