As long as there is airflow in the vicinity of these, they're fine. I bought 2 from this seller for $410 each back in December...
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Enterprise SSD "small deals"
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Prices are absurd right now. In late 2017 I bought a pair of SN200 7.68TB drives for around $350 each. In 2023 I bought several 1.92TB drives for like $90 each.
The best "deal" I've seen is a pair the OEM equivalent of a 960GB Samsung 840 for like $70, but those have poor performance and there was no SMART report.
The best "deal" I've seen is a pair the OEM equivalent of a 960GB Samsung 840 for like $70, but those have poor performance and there was no SMART report.
I'll let you know once I get them connected. The method I had in mind doesn't work physically.
Anyone connecting e1.s drives via MCIO?
In my humble opinion smaller drives are a very different product and price category. Also, prices a very months back probably don't mean much in 2026.Seems crazy expensive to me.
I could get 3.84 TB for less than 100 EUR a few Months back (SATA, not NVMe though).
Anyone finding deals <$100/TB for 8+TB drives has a bargain.
Not me. I have too many SSDs. Would only buy 15.36TB in SAS format. Probably going to sell a bunch of 6.4TB SAS SSD in a few weeks.
Holy smokes that was a good deal.
My possibly luckiest and randomest ebay experience was I was bidding on an auction for a 3.2TB SSD. I only bid like 80 bucks and it ultimately sold for double. However after the auction the seller, out of the blue, gave me an offer to buy another one for the $80 price. I'm still using it in my home server which is why I don't need to buy any of these deals. And it's an old HGST overprovisioned eMLC drive so it's gonna last forever.
Samsung pm863 1.92tb sata 100% health £110.93 each, 2 available. I'm not sure if this is a good deal but considering storage prices at the moment it seems okay compared to the second hand nvmes going for more than double per tb. I don't know anything about these drives and firmware so hopefully someone more knowledgeable can provide some more info.
The seller has sent me an offer at £104.70 so it looks like they are trying to sell fairly fast, potentially a good deal to be made by sending an offer.
Samsung 1.92TB SATA 6G/s 2.5" TLC Read Intensive SSD PM863 Enterprise MZ-7LM1T9E | eBay UK
100% HEALTH & PERFORMANCE.
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The seller has sent me an offer at £104.70 so it looks like they are trying to sell fairly fast, potentially a good deal to be made by sending an offer.
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While waiting for a hypothetical SSD deal, nice xeon gen 3 micro atx board. Nice for compact home servers Supermicro X12SPM-TF $400
That’s not bad at all right now. I scored a couple of refurb X12SPM-LN4Fs in excellent condition and already licensed with SFT-DCMS-SINGLE for $285 apiece but that was months ago.
Ive had a minute of silence for used motherboard prices a while back.
I recently order a few more of these to pick the boards out of them.
I recently order a few more of these to pick the boards out of them.
On the subject of motherboards, I picked up 2 new-in-box ASRock Rack SPC621D8 boards for only $449 each. Best price I could find by $100. If you downgrade the BIOS from the stock P1.30 to L1.23 (a beta version you can find in other forum posts here, or PM me), you can run it with a Xeon 6336Y ES QUYS that will only set you back $70. Again, I am now running two of these with 256G (8x32G) of ECC DDR4-2400 RDIMMs recovered from my HP Z6 G4 workstations that were stuck in PCIe 3.0 with Xeon Gold 6138 CPUs. Burn-in testing with memtest86 for both proved 100% good to go.
BIOS revision P1.20 will run that ES CPU, but it's kind of hamstrung (only SST-PP Base mode, slower clock speeds). I get Base + Mode 3 now with the L1.23 BIOS, and even though the ES CPU plate says 2.3GHz, the BIOS runs it at 2.4GHz, just like the production CPU.
BIOS revision P1.20 will run that ES CPU, but it's kind of hamstrung (only SST-PP Base mode, slower clock speeds). I get Base + Mode 3 now with the L1.23 BIOS, and even though the ES CPU plate says 2.3GHz, the BIOS runs it at 2.4GHz, just like the production CPU.
Any idea if the OCuLink port that's populated on the motherboard in these is usable? It would be nice to be able to get some NVMe drives connected to it without needing to use that single x16 slot!
Its usable, i bought them based on other builds ive seen on this board with 4 nvme (2 on oculink, 2 on x8x4x4 riser) and ive done a single u.2 on it.
Its this board, looks like they just did not solder on the oculink connector conflicting with their shroud for their boards.
This seller also has just the board from those servers listed for some better pictures of it.
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Great! Although not great in that it pushed me over the edge and I just ordered one...
Going to pull the motherboard out and swap it out for a slightly older 2011-3 based system. Not that it's all that much of an upgrade really, but it'll be interesting to have an OCP 2.0 slot and the OcUlink port. Not to mention that the VRM on the motherboard can be updated to run something like the 8259CL. =) The pictures in the listing show it coming with the TPM-2.0 module, along with a ConnectX4 Lx OCP adapter too, which is a bonus.
The only thing I'm a little bummed out about is that from the picture in the listing for just the board that you posted, it looks like this version of the motherboard only has the OCP A slot and not B, so it can only support `Type 1' OCP cards. I was hoping to get a 50Gbs ConnectX4 Lx card, but those are `Type 2'. =( Strangely the dual 25Gbps version _is_ a Type 1, so go figure!
For those adventurous enough to deal with broken connectors: Samsung PM1643 7.68TB SAS 3 SSD 12Gbps MZ-ILT7T60 Server\NAS (Damaged) $325