Enterprise SSD "small deals"

Notice: Page may contain affiliate links for which we may earn a small commission through services like Amazon Affiliates or Skimlinks.
L

luckylinux

Well-Known Member
Mar 18, 2012
1,553
487
83
Sacrilego said:
Name checks out :D
Click to expand...
Well I still [have to] use it at work (regrettably) :rolleyes: .

At least HyperV on Windows 11 is quite Decent so you can run Linux VM quite well (provided you format them with mkfs.ext4 -G 4096 so that it doesn't result in a 200% Space utilization Overhead on the Host :)). But yeah, I don't really like Powershell Scripting :p.
 
M

Markess

Well-Known Member
May 19, 2018
1,239
871
113
Northern California
luckylinux said:
That probably rules out most NVMe Drives, surely U.2 and PCIe, leaving possible M.2 up to the Game (assuming they will do ASPM).

So you are left with SATA and SAS, out of which SATA is much better in Terms of Power Consumption, but also quite a bit more expensive in the 2nd Hand Market (around twice the Price as SAS/NVMe ?).
Click to expand...
Yeah, SATA is definitely indicated. But prices are on them are kinda nuts right now, so I keep checking options to see if there's some well behaved PCIe/SAS that I may have missed.

The "Family NAS" has a handful of literally unused when I got them 1.92TB SM863s I got for $44 each a couple years ago when prices were low. Running out of space now, so I'm weighing expanding the pool, starting over with higher capacities, or setting up a second NAS just for my files that I can put on the 10g side of the home network (a.k.a.my side).

Funny how my family complain about heat and noise, but don’t mind the cooling necessary for the Optane 905Ps I put in their Gaming/Workstation boxes. ;)

nexox said:
They aren't that difficult to cool, I have a 6.4TB model that's usually pretty lightly-loaded which just has an 80mm Noctua sitting next to it, blowing sideways across the card (and my NIC,) that been enough. Last I looked there are a few of those model on ebay that you could probably get for around $200 each if you make an offer on more than one.
Click to expand...

Hmm......
 
Last edited:
  • Like
Reactions: luckylinux
K

kapone

Well-Known Member
May 23, 2015
1,874
1,253
113
nexox said:
They aren't that difficult to cool, I have a 6.4TB model that's usually pretty lightly-loaded which just has an 80mm Noctua sitting next to it, blowing sideways across the card (and my NIC,) that been enough. Last I looked there are a few of those model on ebay that you could probably get for around $200 each if you make an offer on more than one.
Click to expand...
They're not. The industrial FPGA used is rated for >100C and the drive won't even throttle till like 85-90C or so. Take a look at my SAN nodes:



You can see the SX350 6.4TB crammed in there (2x Mellanox 40g cards, the SX350 and an Adaptec 8 series) with no direct fan on it per se (it gets a bit of flow from the fan on the Adaptec card. Keep in mind, this all has 48 3.5" spinners in front of it...and I use SAS disks...so lots of heat gets thrown at the server components. However, this chassis has six 120mm fans (3x in the front, and 3x in the mid plane), so a fair amount of airflow, but pretty warm/hot.

- The SX350 idles at ~55-60C when the disks are not spinning actively.
- When a RAID consistency check kicks in (all 48 HDDs spin), the SX350 gets to ~67-68C.
- When a RAID consistency check kicks in AND I load the SX350 with some pretty heavy writes, it gets to ~75C. This is a rare/worst case condition.

I've never had the drive report any errors. :)
 
  • Like
Reactions: b3rrytech, richardm, Markess and 4 others
L

luckylinux

Well-Known Member
Mar 18, 2012
1,553
487
83
ca3y6 said:
Lenovo TOSHIBA 3.84TB SSD 2.5 U.2 NVMe KCM5DRUG3T84 (78% & 79%) Health $150 Pardon Our Interruption...
Click to expand...
Again :oops: ? I think I saw 98% Lifetime at 179 USD for the same/similar Drive yesterday.

Damn so many NVMe U.2 Drives :(. I am considering upgrading my Supermicro SC826 to a 4x NVMe Backplane. Same story with the SC216 although that's much more expensive (and I will need 6 x 4-Port PCIe NVMe Controllers :rolleyes:).
 
Last edited:
W

whoknew123

Member
Jun 21, 2025
30
18
8
How does the sale cycle look for these used drives typically look? Is there a steady flow throughout the year or do you see massive dumps Q4 in the new fiscal year?
 
L

luckylinux

Well-Known Member
Mar 18, 2012
1,553
487
83
If somebody wants SATA there is this. Not as a good deal as SAS and lately NVMe, but still good (I guess) and open to Offers.

60 Pieces available at this Date.

Note that it's CISCO Branded so do your own Diligence in Terms of what you can expect as FW Updates etc.

SAMSUNG 3.84TB 2.5 6GB SATA SSD PM883 MZ-7LH3T80 3.8TB SATA SSD MZ7LH3T8HMLT - 190 USD open to Offers

Pardon Our Interruption...

www.ebay.com
 
  • Like
Reactions: EasyRhino
W

whoknew123

Member
Jun 21, 2025
30
18
8
luckylinux said:
If somebody wants SATA there is this. Not as a good deal as SAS and lately NVMe, but still good (I guess) and open to Offers.

60 Pieces available at this Date.

Note that it's CISCO Branded so do your own Diligence in Terms of what you can expect as FW Updates etc.

SAMSUNG 3.84TB 2.5 6GB SATA SSD PM883 MZ-7LH3T80 3.8TB SATA SSD MZ7LH3T8HMLT - 190 USD open to Offers

Pardon Our Interruption...

www.ebay.com
Click to expand...
I offered $110 for 10x and got auto declined. Just data point for others.
 
  • Like
Reactions: luckylinux
L

luckylinux

Well-Known Member
Mar 18, 2012
1,553
487
83
whoknew123 said:
I offered $110 for 10x and got auto declined. Just data point for others.
Click to expand...
Auto-decline isn't dependent on Quantity. And for SATA I think you won't find a Deal below say 140-150 USD.

I re-iterate though what I said before: it's CISCO branded, so Firmware Updates could be challenging.
 
L

luckylinux

Well-Known Member
Mar 18, 2012
1,553
487
83
POG-Knuckles said:
oh ok. thx ! i,m sorry if that was a bad post was my first try ^^
Click to expand...
No Worries :) . It's not a bad Deal, but it's not a Great Deal either :).

If you look at this Post from @ca3y6 General Rule of Thumb is:
  • < 45 USD / TB = Cheap
  • < 35 USD / TB = Great

So according to that Rule the Listing is indeed Cheap (45 USD / TB x 4 TB = 180 USD for a 4TB Drive), but Personally I saw a lot lower than that :).

Lowest I think for SAS Drive was 80 USD for 3.84 TB. NVMe 100 USD for 3.2 - 4 TB with a few Exceptions (60 EUR for 3.2TB and 142 EUR for 6.4 TB).

EDIT 1: Main Issue is that Seller is NOT Open for Offers on this one :( .
 
  • Like
Reactions: POG-Knuckles
P

POG-Knuckles

New Member
Sep 16, 2023
3
0
1
luckylinux said:
No Worries :) . It's not a bad Deal, but it's not a Great Deal either :).

If you look at this Post from @ca3y6 General Rule of Thumb is:
  • < 45 USD / TB = Cheap
  • < 35 USD / TB = Great

So according to that Rule the Listing is indeed Cheap (45 USD / TB x 4 TB = 180 USD for a 4TB Drive), but Personally I saw a lot lower than that :).

Lowest I think for SAS Drive was 80 USD for 3.84 TB. NVMe 100 USD for 3.2 - 4 TB with a few Exceptions (60 EUR for 3.2TB and 142 EUR for 6.4 TB).

EDIT 1: Main Issue is that Seller is NOT Open for Offers on this one :( .
Click to expand...
Thats true offers would be nice.

Thanks for the information! its very helpfull for me.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom