Hitachi 200GB SLC SAS $200ea

[MiniKnight]

Older gen drives with 2011 manufacture dates from what I'm seeing:
Hitachi HUSSL4020ASS600 200 GB Internal Solid State Drive P N 0B24935 | eBay

For some of the more adventurous here.

 

[cn9amt100up]

200USD for a SSD with 3.5 years used history, not worth it

 

[T_Minus]

They are SLC. With 18PB endurance.

Not really comparable to many drives out right now in terms of endurance, and how "technically" long the life should be of this.

Manual: https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...ltrastar-hussl4020ass600-sas2-ssd-200gb.4293/

Other thread: https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...ltrastar-hussl4020ass600-sas2-ssd-200gb.4293/

There is also a thread w/how to do a Low-Level format to fix the known issues.

 

[Patrick]

200USD for a SSD with 3.5 years used history, not worth it

Certainly a significant risk. As @T_Minus mentioned, they do have huge write endurance and are at $1/GB.

 

[Patrick]

All 3 BO'd for $100/ ea. I did not really want them, but for $0.50/gb they might make nice 200GB small drives.

 

[T_Minus]

Hopefully we both can get them working ;D

 

[azev]

I used this drive for cachecade drive and it actually feels faster compared to S3700. I didnt really do much benchmark to compare, but during super heavy load like deploying patches to 20+ windows vm and a reboot, I feel that this drive provide better cachecade acceleration than a S3700.

 

[ATS]

I used this drive for cachecade drive and it actually feels faster compared to S3700. I didnt really do much benchmark to compare, but during super heavy load like deploying patches to 20+ windows vm and a reboot, I feel that this drive provide better cachecade acceleration than a S3700.

Wouldn't be surprised. IIRC, the 400 series wins the contest for most over provisioned drives ever. I want to say its something like 3-4x over provisioning.

 

[T_Minus]

Are you guys running cachcecade w./write caching to or just reading? If read are you doing RAID0 Pool of SSDs?

 

[azev]

I am using writeback on my cachecade config... Right now i only have one ssd for cachecade, but planning to raid0 it it the near future.