[GONE] 128GB "industrial use" SSD - $9.59 each (for qty >= 4)

[Arvind]

ebay: Xcel 128GB SATA 2.5-inch SSD Industrial Grade Flash Storage A25FD-128GCFM31N | eBay

From what I could find via. a quick search, the "industrial use" term seems more for the physical environment characteristics it was made for, not necessarily SSD endurance.

Seller is offering fast shipping and 30-day returns, and at these prices, seems low risk.

 

[Samir]

Gone!

 

[thetoad]

ebay: Xcel 128GB SATA 2.5-inch SSD Industrial Grade Flash Storage A25FD-128GCFM31N | eBay

From what I could find via. a quick search, the "industrial use" term seems more for the physical environment characteristics it was made for, not necessarily SSD endurance.

Seller is offering fast shipping and 30-day returns, and at these prices, seems low risk.

endurance seems decent: http://static6.arrow.com/aropdfconversion/ca004edca682a4a5e505551c53ec6d11aa8d38cd/xcel10.pdf

by my calculation it has a minimum endurance of 3.65 PB, and if that is for the 32GB version and scales linearly by drive size, would be a pretty exellent level of endurance for a 128GB drive, hence even if it was just 3.65PB, it be a pretty good endurance for a 128GB drive.

 

[aij]

Gone!

It looks like seller raised the price and re-listed them. They're now $14.99 each or $12.74 for 4+.

Xcel 128GB SATA 2.5-inch SSD Industrial Grade Flash Storage A25FD-128GCFM31N | eBay

Slight signs of wear are visible on the drive.

www.ebay.com

Still not bad for boot drives, but I already have a bunch of Sun F40.

 

[tozmo]

Thanks, got one for an external SSD throw-around

 

[lopgok]

According to A25FD-128GI32N Smart Modular Xcel-10 128GB SATA 3.0 Gbps SSD, these are SLC drives which should last a very long time. Likely not the most power efficient...

 

[piexil]

According to A25FD-128GI32N Smart Modular Xcel-10 128GB SATA 3.0 Gbps SSD, these are SLC drives which should last a very long time. Likely not the most power efficient...

Random Read IOPS	6100
Random Write IOPS	290

These are some pretty sad stats

 

[thetoad]

also read/write speeds are in the rust read/write rate.

 

[Almighty]

I plan on using these purely as temp file drives or download drives prior to moving them to more permanent spinny disk storage. I want to avoid writing temp files to other NVME/SSD drives that have lower endurance. Should be good for that right?

 

[msg7086]

At 110MB/s read and write, if you can afford a proper hard drive then it won't make sense to buy this thing.

An Exos 16TB at $330 can operate at 200MB/s+, and for torrenting as long as the file is pre-allocated the performance will be pretty good.

This is probably best for high iops database use case, where you fit a 100GB database on it and keep abusing it.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

These small SSDs are also great for a older Pentium III era system when paired with a PCI SATA controller.

 

[Almighty]

I'm using one to hold a windows 10 eval installation so i can run tools in various computers that don't have *nix versions.

I'm going to use 1 in a pfsense box.

I have 2 others I don't know what to do with yet but i'm sure i'll think of something over the next year

 

[Almighty]

Welp one just failed on my pfsense box, now I'm struggling to trust the other ones ^_^

 

[EasyRhino]

that's a bummer... but SSD's do fail after a while.
I think my only SSD failure was a used enterprise samsung. My cheap consumer ones are still kicking ironically.
(oh and my original old one where I broke off the SATA connector, but that was my fault)

 

[Almighty]

that's a bummer... but SSD's do fail after a while.
I think my only SSD failure was a used enterprise samsung. My cheap consumer ones are still kicking ironically.
(oh and my original old one where I broke off the SATA connector, but that was my fault)

yea, i bought old gear and overly trusted the industry-grade now to find similar replacement SSDs that are cheap and start the circle of life all over again!

 

[EasyRhino]

I mean... they never said which industry, did they?