Enterprise SSD "small deals"

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Greg_E

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With the pricing on everything silicon going up, my hopes of finding decent SATA in around 1.2tb for under $50 is pretty much gone. I need like 6 of them for the NAS in my lab. Would reduce power consumption a little bit more and be a bit more speedy so I can maybe saturate the 10gbps more easily (I can get close with the spinning drives). I have 6 x 1TB 2.5 inch drives now.
 
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Greg_E said:
With the pricing on everything silicon going up, my hopes of finding decent SATA in around 1.2tb for under $50 is pretty much gone. I need like 6 of them for the NAS in my lab. Would reduce power consumption a little bit more and be a bit more speedy so I can maybe saturate the 10gbps more easily (I can get close with the spinning drives). I have 6 x 1TB 2.5 inch drives now.
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Heh, I recently did that. 16x 1.6TB Intel S3500 sata drives =)
 
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You need a fan blowing on them directly, but it doesn’t need to blast full power. Those drives are designed to run in confined cases stuck with 23 other drives.
 
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Unless you go SATA you will have this issue with NVMe enterprise drives, you should not underestimate the heat issue as it'll give you headaches one you diagnose weird stability issues later.
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The cooling difficulty really varies across different models of U.2 drives, and enterprise AICs are mostly no problem. Some U.2 drives only have a single PCB inside so all of the components can conduct heat directly to the case, many though have two PCBs and the components in the gap between the two are sometimes difficult to keep cool.

The 7450 U.2 is a single board but some components still don't contact the case for cooling (according to one teardown I found,) I have a 7450 in e1.s and the thermally conductive blobs on one side of the PCB were placed incorrectly and barely touched the chips, so maybe that whole generation isn't great, but I'm tempted to just avoid Micron NVMe entirely.
 
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