Intel Optane 905P 1.5TB on sale $299

[Thomas H]

Cheapest price so far

Intel Optane 905P Series 1.5TB, 2.5" x 15mm, U.2, PCIe 3.0 x4, 3D XPoint Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPE21D015TA01
at Newegg for $349 - $50 off w/ promo code SUMMER673, limited offer

Key features
2.5" x 15mm, U.2 Form Factor
PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4
Optimize for write intensive workloads
1.5TB
The Intel® Optane™ SSD 905P is designed for the most demanding storage workloads in client systems, delivering high random read/write performance coupled with low latency and industry-leading endurance.
Exceptional random storage performance of up to 575K/550K IOPs (4K random reads/writes)
Low latency of less than 11µs
Endurance Rating (Lifetime) 27.37 PB Written
Enhanced Power Loss Data Protection
High Endurance Technology (HET)
Temperature Monitoring and Logging
End-to-End Data Protection

 

[Auggie]

It feels weird buying an expensive pcie 3.0 drive in 2024, but here I am.

 

[Sacrilego]

Oh what the heck... In for two.
Not sure what I'm going to do to them yet. I was planning on using them as metadata vdevs.

 

[Civiloid]

Put an order for 4, for the same reasons...

 

[Digital Spaceport]

I like using my 900's for VM host boot/os drives. Really snappy VM OS performance.

 

[EasyRhino]

my VM needs are modest, I'm hosting them on a 1tb Samsung 850 EVO that I bought in a giant cardboard box of ewaste from a dude on a street corner a few years ago. And performance is still more than I need for my home server.

But imagine how much faster it would be with optane?!

 

[NachoCDN]

i'd love to get a couple of these, but the WAF is low after my last purchase!

 

[frankharv]

But imagine how much faster it would be with optane?!

Didn't Intel discontinue them along with thier whole enterprise drive endeavor?

I didn't look at the eclipse too long and it burned my cornea up.

Kioxa and Samsung will take up the slack.
Weird how borg didn't make SAS SSD. Always wondered why.
I wonder how long Arc lasts before they kill it.

Solidigm just rolls off the tounge. They are brilliant marketers.

 

[Joel]

It feels weird buying an expensive pcie 3.0 drive in 2024, but here I am.

Lately I find prioritizing IOPS to be far superior than peak transfer rates, and even in 2024 Optane is near the top of the pile.

 

[ribroc]

I use optane primarily as metadata devices in zfs. For my pools I average 100GB/15TB at a 128k size, or ~3x as much if I bump the size up to 256k. It's pricey, but it cuts my scrub time down dramatically.

 

[Samir]

...that I bought in a giant cardboard box of ewaste from a dude on a street corner a few years ago.

Wait, you just drop this here without a full detailed story?!? Where in the world is this where people are on street corners with IT gear?!?

 

[Auggie]

Lately I find prioritizing IOPS to be far superior than peak transfer rates, and even in 2024 Optane is near the top of the pile.

Yeah, that's why I bought it. Still feels weird, though. I have optane boot devices on nearly everything I can. I've bought an embarrassing amount of the 118GB m.2 drives.

 

[l.code]

Would an U.2 SSD-to-PCIe adapter works for this driver, like to connect it to a PC?

 

[padmepounder]

Would an U.2 SSD-to-PCIe adapter works for this driver, like to connect it to a PC?

No reason why it shouldnt.

 

[Auggie]

Would an U.2 SSD-to-PCIe adapter works for this driver, like to connect it to a PC?

The one you originally linked is the exact one I use in my primary desktop for my current 960GB 905P

 

[MiniKnight]

I was just going to post this!

 

[Jorge Perez]

Sucks the 960GB isn't on sale though.

 

[Citizen03212]

Bah! Newegg.com won't ship to Canada... and Newegg.ca doesn't accept the promo code.

 

[EasyRhino]

Where in the world is this where people are on street corners with IT gear?!?

Lol, it was LA. One of the "not good" part of LA. Probably 4 years ago I happened to see a listing on facebook marketplace or something called simply "drives and rams", and it was the contents of a large cardboard box spread all over the floor like a drug bust. I couldn't really make out what everything was but I could see that some was pretty new and some ancient. He was asking for $500 but I asked him if he'd take $200 and he said sure.

When I met him to pick it up he said "oh you can have this" and also slammed a baggie of naked CPU's in the box.

Turns out he worked at a recycling plant and had accumulated this stuff he thought was valuable.

At lot of the stuff was ancient. DDR1 and DDR2 RAM, core 2 duo CPU's. A bunch of old laptop cpu's when they were socketed. SATA hard drives <200GB. (the crown jewel was a 40MB Conner drive).

Some mid grade stuff found good homes. Someone on reddit needed a bunch fo DDR2 ram for some reason. A guy from Mexico bought like 30 old laptop drives because he would rebuild old xboxes.

But some of the stuff was pretty good. A bunch of DDR3, some 3rd and 4th gen core cpus. An AMD A10 where I could straighten the pins and use in a spare motherboard, a few drives over 1TB or 2TB in size. And the aforementioned 1TB Samsung 850 EVO drive.

But man, going through and just testing the stuff took FOREVER. So much memtests. I had a desktop system with the guts opened up and 6x SATA cables coming out of it to run drive tests.

To be honest it was the most fun I've had with a computer purchase.

 

[Citizen03212]

I use optane primarily as metadata devices in zfs. For my pools I average 100GB/15TB at a 128k size, or ~3x as much if I bump the size up to 256k. It's pricey, but it cuts my scrub time down dramatically.

Is that metadata-only... or metadata-and-small-files? 100GB seems like a lot for metadata-only and 15TB... unless you have millions and millions of small files?