Enterprise SSD "small deals"
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And no clue as to health. "Used and tested to be working" means absolutely nothing. Patchy seller for sure. Hard pass.
Yeah, I've purchased 100s of used enterprise drives on ebay from 2010 to today, and from 2010 - 2020 I received less than 5 that had 1PB or greater writes.... my recent ebay order from 4 sellers of 16 total had 4 drives with nearly 5PB writes...
I won't ever buy a QLC drive let alone a used one, but TLC wear out indicator go up much quicker than the old MLC
that's for sure.
I won't ever buy a QLC drive let alone a used one, but TLC wear out indicator go up much quicker than the old MLC
that's for sure.No smart or health info is kind of the norm for enterprise drives on ebay (unfortunately). So requires a bit of a leap of faith, but from my experience, I have rarely been burned by unadvertised low health SSDs on ebay.
Plus you can always just return it citing just that. Worn out drive. Usually sellers will say it's in "great condition" whatever that means but when the drive has 10% life left, that's not exactly great condition. I have had several in the 50% and I'm fine with that since 50% for a lot of enterprise drives means years for my use case.
Are these easy to reformat to 512?
NetApp Toshiba 3.84TB 2.5" SAS SSD X358A 520 Format X358_TPM5V3T8ATE | eBay
NetApp Toshiba 3.84TB 2.5" SAS SSD X358A 520 Format X358_TPM5V3T8ATE ---Manufacturer: NetApp Toshiba ---Model: KPM5WRUG3T84 ---P/N: X358A ---Capacity: 3.84TB ---Health: 93-100% Health ---Interface: SAS ---520 Format ---2.5" ---Physical Condition: Used, overall good condition. Please see photos...
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Lenovo ThinkSystem 3.84TB 2.5'' 6G SATA SSD $18 probably a mispricing, seller appears legitimate (but don't vouch for them).
So following up on the below drives, I think they may be bricked from the 32k/40k hour bug. They are loaded with firmware NA01, which has the bug. I tried to run them on my unraid server and couldn't get them running. I tried putting an hba into my windows desktop and can't get them to initialize.
Is there anything I can do to verify the hours/confirm they're dead from the bug before I send them back?
Is there anything I can do to verify the hours/confirm they're dead from the bug before I send them back?
Code:
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
root@Tower:~# sg_inq /dev/sdaa
standard INQUIRY:
PQual=0 PDT=0 RMB=0 LU_CONG=0 hot_pluggable=0
version=0x03 [SPC] [AERC=0] [TrmTsk=0] NormACA=0 HiSUP=1 Resp_data_format=2 SCCS=0 ACC=0 TPGS=0 3PC=0 Protect=1 [BQue=0] EncServ=0 MultiP=1 (VS=0) [MChngr=0] [ACKREQQ=0] Addr16=0 [RelAdr=0] WBus16=0 Sync=0 [Linked=0] [TranDis=0] CmdQue=1 [SPI: Clocking=0x0 QAS=0 IUS=0] length=96 (0x60)
Peripheral device type: disk
Vendor identification: NETAPP Product identification: X356_TPM4V3T8AME
Product revision level: NA01
root@Tower:~#
sg_readcap /dev/sdaa
read capacity(10):
Descriptor format, current; Sense key: Hardware Error
ASC=44, vendor specific qualification ASCQ=d1 (hex)
Descriptor type: Vendor specific [0x80] 00 25 74 02 01 1b 00 00 00 00 00 00 79 00 00 1d 32 21 1e 00 00 00 00 00 55 09 00 00 00 00
read capacity(10): pass-through requested 8 bytes (data-in), got 0 bytes
READ CAPACITY (10) failed: Medium or hardware error sg_readcap failed: Medium or hardware errorSAMSUNG PM1725 HHHL 3.2TB MZPLK3T2HCJL MZ-PLK3T2A XTTR5 PCIe Solid State Drive $110 that's a 5 DWPD card
MZ-7LM3T8N MZ7LM3T8HMLP SAMSUNG PM863a 3.84TB 2.5'' 6.0Gbps SATA SSD | eBay
This has been tested and it is in good working conditions.
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MZ-7LM3T8N MZ7LM3T8HMLP Samsung PM863a 3.84TB 2.5'' 6.0Gbps SATA SSD
Seller accepted my offer for 3 at $130 each
5x HPE 3,84 TB SAS 12Gb/s SSD VKPM3840S5XNMRL €120
Unfortunately it's only available for pickup in 84155 Bayern - Bodenkirchen, Germany.
Unfortunately it's only available for pickup in 84155 Bayern - Bodenkirchen, Germany.