Does anyone have any idea what a fair prices is for a Samsung PM863a 4TB with 97% health? I have one to sell but ebay is suggesting a list price of ₤475 which seems excessive. When I have an idea I will be listing it on here.
Enterprise SSD "small deals"
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Depends how quickly you want to sell it. I see auctions for 99% health PM893 3.84TB settling in the $320-390 range. Now yours is a bit older, and people get sometimes a bit ahead of themselves in auctions. But I think it is likely to sell at £250-270. What you can do also is to look for the cheapest one on offer on eBay and undercut it by £5. Though there is hardly anything right now. Market is dry, it’s a seller’s market!
Only two listed on ebay in the UK cheapest is 400 at the moment. most recently sold one went for 528GBP buy now. People must be desperate or something. Do you think 300 shipped on here would considered "a good deal"?
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Seller is a general IT recycler and seems a bit confused with SSD specs. Posted smarts and performance of the ones I received earlier. Only thing is it is a PCIe3 only drive (Netapp firmware limitation) https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/enterprise-ssd-small-deals.48343/post-507055
didnt wanna run my fio out of the box, just ran the lbaf=0, and they are happy, ran fio tests.. way to good results vsexpected for x2
checked.. and yes
lspci -vvv -s 0000:85:00.0 | grep -E "LnkCap:|LnkSta:"
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L0s, Exit Latency L0s unlimited
LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x4
this is in a pci gen3 switch enclosure, will try them in a direct to cpu as well
#7 is netapp drive
nvme 0/1 are kioxia CM6's
8 is pm1733
test is 4k fio to device
Drive Workload IOPS BW(MB/s)
----- -------- ---- -------- -----------
nvme0n1 randread 591771 2311.6
nvme0n1 randwrite 730728 2854.4
nvme0n1 randrw 808552 3158.4
nvme1n1 randread 864956 3378.7
nvme1n1 randwrite 747447 2919.7
nvme1n1 randrw 803075 3137.0
nvme7n1 randread 852756 3331.1
nvme7n1 randwrite 597692 2334.7
nvme7n1 randrw 734480 2869.1
nvme8n1 randread 837102 3269.9
nvme8n1 randwrite 837647 3272.1
nvme8n1 randrw 913318 3567.6
checked.. and yes
lspci -vvv -s 0000:85:00.0 | grep -E "LnkCap:|LnkSta:"
LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L0s, Exit Latency L0s unlimited
LnkSta: Speed 8GT/s, Width x4
this is in a pci gen3 switch enclosure, will try them in a direct to cpu as well
#7 is netapp drive
nvme 0/1 are kioxia CM6's
8 is pm1733
test is 4k fio to device
Drive Workload IOPS BW(MB/s)
----- -------- ---- -------- -----------
nvme0n1 randread 591771 2311.6
nvme0n1 randwrite 730728 2854.4
nvme0n1 randrw 808552 3158.4
nvme1n1 randread 864956 3378.7
nvme1n1 randwrite 747447 2919.7
nvme1n1 randrw 803075 3137.0
nvme7n1 randread 852756 3331.1
nvme7n1 randwrite 597692 2334.7
nvme7n1 randrw 734480 2869.1
nvme8n1 randread 837102 3269.9
nvme8n1 randwrite 837647 3272.1
nvme8n1 randrw 913318 3567.6
4 more back in stock
Western Digital 0TS2400 15.36TB Ultrastar DC SN655 NVMe SSD SAS WUS5EA1A1ESP7E7
Western Digital 0TS2400 15.36TB Ultrastar DC SN655 NVMe SSD SAS WUS5EA1A1ESP7E7
Just another datapoint on drive health. They all came formatted LBA4.
-4 stock! their mine.
sorry to anyone else, but theese turned out so nice I can actually use them for a ceph project I had on the backburner, since nvme pricing has been a nogo.
at least Im donating labtime to the community back, I feel bad for buying sevral
No one is more entitled than anyone else to buy them. It’s surprising they were in stock for so long today (if you call 15min “long”) as I was busy and missed my own notification for several minutes, and since I rely on search rather than monitoring a specific listing, I am also a few minutes behind the change (changes in listing only appear in search after a few minutes)