So we are building a server for backups. It contains mostly the huge 10TB Seagate SAS drives that recently started to finally ship. (The ones announced last spring but only ever shipped to Amazon/Google/Microsoft Azure)
Parts are on the way, but there is one item on backorder and it's been out of stock since before I ordered everything in October. The Intel DC S3520 solid state drives we were going to use as the boot drive (and likely where the backup software would store it's metadata database too)
So I have been searching all my suppliers and every ETA given has missed over and over and over again. They all say there is a global shortage of enterprise grade flash. I contacted the manufacturers partner rep and he told me they basically just ship everything they can make to fulfill their Tier 1 manufacturer contracts. Says it's been months since any meaningful quantity of enterprise SSD has shipped into the distribution channel.
Looks like I have to go on ebay and get some server pulls if I want drives.
So basically unless you are stripping them out of a Dell / HPE / Lenovo server you are on perpetual backorder.
If it were my personal use I probably would have gone ebay. But it's going to be a unit one of my customers is getting. They will likely just have to accept that if we get an ebay drive pulled from an OEM server it will have no warranty once removed from it's donor system or we could wait another 3 months and hopefully the shortage eases or a few drives trickle into the distributor warehouse and our long backorder time will give us priority over the hundreds of other backorders the distributors system is currently showing.
If I go with an ebay drive I probably will actually go for the higher reliability specs of a S3710. Even if it's used it should be ok.
Anyone in the same boat? Stuck on hold waiting for new drives?
Parts are on the way, but there is one item on backorder and it's been out of stock since before I ordered everything in October. The Intel DC S3520 solid state drives we were going to use as the boot drive (and likely where the backup software would store it's metadata database too)
So I have been searching all my suppliers and every ETA given has missed over and over and over again. They all say there is a global shortage of enterprise grade flash. I contacted the manufacturers partner rep and he told me they basically just ship everything they can make to fulfill their Tier 1 manufacturer contracts. Says it's been months since any meaningful quantity of enterprise SSD has shipped into the distribution channel.
Looks like I have to go on ebay and get some server pulls if I want drives.
So basically unless you are stripping them out of a Dell / HPE / Lenovo server you are on perpetual backorder.
If it were my personal use I probably would have gone ebay. But it's going to be a unit one of my customers is getting. They will likely just have to accept that if we get an ebay drive pulled from an OEM server it will have no warranty once removed from it's donor system or we could wait another 3 months and hopefully the shortage eases or a few drives trickle into the distributor warehouse and our long backorder time will give us priority over the hundreds of other backorders the distributors system is currently showing.
If I go with an ebay drive I probably will actually go for the higher reliability specs of a S3710. Even if it's used it should be ok.
Anyone in the same boat? Stuck on hold waiting for new drives?
