Enterprise SSD "small deals"
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Wow, we're at ~$400+ for 3.84TB SATA :-(
I do not expect things to improve dramatically anytime soon.
We may get some SSDs when AI dumps it one way or the other, but it would likely be in a different form factors (NVMe in U.2 etc).
I do not expect things to improve dramatically anytime soon.
We may get some SSDs when AI dumps it one way or the other, but it would likely be in a different form factors (NVMe in U.2 etc).
I worry about the health of those drives. Locally someone was selling a handful of U.2 drives that were at 23/24PBW drive endurance and only like 3 years old. I was told they were retired them because they were too close to 0% life remaining. And they were still over $100/TB
This is unusual. I've bought quite a bit (100s) of used enterprise SSDs and even 70% life remaining was very unusual.
Most were in 90%s, and over half in 99-100% range.
I guess now we can see another round of reuse ;-) :-(
Yeah these recyclers very rarely sell SSD under 90% health, usually disclose it, and I have never been sold a <75% health undisclosed. TBW is only half of the story. An enterprise SSD can take a lot more TBW if they are sequential, than their random TBW specification (because of write amplification).
The problem with the AI SSDs is that they will be mostly huge capacity QLC SSDs and I don't know how those age independently of usage.
Right now, Micron's market cap has increased 10x in one year, and they clearly haven't added much production capacity. So this is them hiking up their margins like if there was no tomorrow, jensen style. So this is not only not about to get better, it is about to get worse in the short term (6-12 months).
The problem with the AI SSDs is that they will be mostly huge capacity QLC SSDs and I don't know how those age independently of usage.
Right now, Micron's market cap has increased 10x in one year, and they clearly haven't added much production capacity. So this is them hiking up their margins like if there was no tomorrow, jensen style. So this is not only not about to get better, it is about to get worse in the short term (6-12 months).
$131.21 OBO +S/H LOT OF 4 Micron M500DC 1.8 MTFDDAA480MBB 480GB 1.8 SSD Micro-SATA μSATA 6.0 Gbps
“Sealed, Never Used. The drive has Micro-SATA (or μSATA)) interface. REQUIRED AN ADAPTER to work on a PCI-E or a regular SATA interface."
Price was originally $174, seller sent me an offer for $150 and then lowered the price.
Assuming theres adapters out there cheap, get the price lower with an offer, could be interesting?
“Sealed, Never Used. The drive has Micro-SATA (or μSATA)) interface. REQUIRED AN ADAPTER to work on a PCI-E or a regular SATA interface."
Price was originally $174, seller sent me an offer for $150 and then lowered the price.
Assuming theres adapters out there cheap, get the price lower with an offer, could be interesting?
yes, but do not mix with slim SATA (DVD Drives)
SATA 22p
micro SATA 16p (7+7+2)
slim SATA 13p
Good catch!! First time I’ve seen this form factor (usata not 1.8”) I wonder what it’s used in
The adapters aren't too bad. Currently from $8 on up including shipping. I got 4 for $18 in the past.
Bought some new 400GB Innodisk ones 2 years ago, $24 each. Haven't found a use for them yet.
Bought some new 400GB Innodisk ones 2 years ago, $24 each. Haven't found a use for them yet.
NOT an SSD, but cheap SP3 motherboard: TYAN S8026GM2NRE Motherboard EATX Server motherboard Only - Testing Shown W/ CPU $250
It's close but look at the connectors under the DIMM slots (on how it's oriented in the 1st image), they are different that the unpopulated ones from the Hyve server.
$49 OBO + US S/H Advantech M.2 480GB Internal SSD - SQF-CM8V4-480G
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Extended temperature industrial 2280 M2 SSD PCIe Gen 3 with heatsink- I wonder how low they would go. My offer at 35 each for 4 was rejected.
Heres a link to the PDF datasheets, its in the first entry "User Manual for SQFlash 920 Series"
The listing picture serial corresponds to "SQF 920 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD (OPAL) 480G 3D TLC (BiCS3) (-40~85°C)"
Pardon the interruption...
Extended temperature industrial 2280 M2 SSD PCIe Gen 3 with heatsink- I wonder how low they would go. My offer at 35 each for 4 was rejected.
Heres a link to the PDF datasheets, its in the first entry "User Manual for SQFlash 920 Series"
The listing picture serial corresponds to "SQF 920 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD (OPAL) 480G 3D TLC (BiCS3) (-40~85°C)"
Just got an offer accepted for two at $45, now I should figure out what to do with them...
Just offered $45 for 1.
Offer accepted.
Offer accepted.
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ssd are less affected, and Ai don't need Gen4 QLC crap.
In Store Pickup Only = two or three in stock from customer returns ?