Enterprise SSD "small deals"

[kapone]

they're coming for our 401k plans

Maybe not so fast. Standard and Poors (who control the S&P Index makeup) have already declined SpaceX's request for an "accelerated" inclusion in the index. Nasdaq is sort of flip flopping right now.

As far as OpenAI and/or Anthropic is concerned, I doubt they'll get added to the indexes relatively quickly. As a "public" company, they have to show a certain number of quarters of consistency and performance, before even being considered. And given the storm cloud gathering over the AI landscape, a few quarters may be enough to prick these absurd valuations.

 

[ca3y6]

And the current headlines won't be helping in that respect: "OpenAI Considers Drastic Price Cuts, Anticipating War for Users With Anthropic", "SoftBank Attempt to Get $6 Billion OpenAI Margin Loan Stalls"

 

[Fritz]

The bigger they are the harder they fall. A crash would take a fair number of eBay sellers with them also. Good riddance.

 

[gbeirn]

$49 OBO + US S/H Advantech M.2 480GB Internal SSD - SQF-CM8V4-480G

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)"

I bought 4 of these at $45 each. They arrived today. They look brand new, no dust or wear or tear. I removed the heat sink on one and the thermal pads look clean as well.

All at 100% life, no partitions on them and no data written. All less than 20 power on cycles and single digit power on hours.

It’s possible SMART data was reset but I’d guess they are new old stock or unused spare parts.

 

[Fritz]

Mine is supposed to be delivered today but it ain't gonna happen. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[Sacrilego]

Mine got delivered today. I'll post more once I get home.

 

[Fritz]

Mine has just arrived in Jacksonville Florida for the 3rd time. PO idiots keep send it south when it should be going north. it's Gone from Jax to Opalaka to Jax, then to Ybor and now it's back in Jax. I suppose I should expect this kind of insanity from Florida but it still pisses me off.

 

[trumee]

$49 OBO + US S/H Advantech M.2 480GB Internal SSD - SQF-CM8V4-480G

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)"

The drives shows no data written. Was the smart data wiped out?

# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 7.5 (build date Jan  1 1980) [x86_64-linux-7.0.10] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-25, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       SQF-CM8V4-480G-ECE
Firmware Version:                   ECFM12A5
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x1987
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x6479a7
Total NVM Capacity:                 480,103,981,056 [480 GB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       1.3
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          480,103,981,056 [480 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            6479a7 5230200073
Local Time is:                      Sun Jun 14 20:36:09 2026 CDT
Firmware Updates (0x12):            1 Slot, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x005d):     Comp DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Log Page Attributes (0x08):         Telmtry_Lg
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         512 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     90 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     95 Celsius

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     8.09W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         2

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        29 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          5%
Percentage Used:                    0%
Data Units Read:                    5 [2.56 MB]
Data Units Written:                 0
Host Read Commands:                 202
Host Write Commands:                0
Controller Busy Time:               0
Power Cycles:                       9
Power On Hours:                     0
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   8
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      6
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0

Warning: NVMe Get Log truncated to 0x200 bytes, 0x200 bytes zero filled
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 63 entries)
No Errors Logged

Warning: NVMe Get Log truncated to 0x200 bytes, 0x034 bytes zero filled
Self-test Log (NVMe Log 0x06, NSID 0xffffffff)
Self-test status: No self-test in progress
No Self-tests Logged

 

[Richard Wad]

Bought one from another seller. 0 power ons, 0 hours. But it had a Windows installation on it.
Definitely not new.

 

[Fritz]

So here it is, Monday and mine finally made it to the local PO. Jacksonville sent it south into Fla 3 times and 3 times it returned to Jax. Now finally USPS has decided to send it to me. Only a gubmint entity can get away with such incompetence.