EXPIRED Intel P3605 1.6TB NVME 2.5" $55

[osrk]

I bought 4 at 40/ea

I think you got the first in discount. Then their offers blew up. I tried the same offer a few hours later but got countered with $45 per, which is fine still. At the time they had 16 offers, so I think they could be more picky. Good deal still.

The early bird does indeed get the worm.

 

[osrk]

Glad I incorrect assumed these were AOC and didn't open this until they were sold out... afterall I just got 5 PCIE and didn't need anymore had these been in stock, and what they are (2.5") I'd have purchased many, sooo lucky me they were sold out HAHA

great drives not fastest or latest and greatest but been wroking for years great!

That's the reason I'm going with nothing but epyc systems. The PCIE slot selection is amazing and it's bifuracated if you need it. Love these epycs.

 

[Cruzader]

I think you got the first in discount. Then their offers blew up. I tried the same offer a few hours later but got countered with $45 per, which is fine still. At the time they had 16 offers, so I think they could be more picky. Good deal still.

Yeah i offered 40/ea for 8 about 50min after posted and was countered with 47 instead.

 

[Whaaat]

Yeah i offered 40/ea for 8 about 50min after posted and was countered with 47 instead.

This seller is too soft, initial price was $45 and lasted for about an hour or two only

Spoiler: 45

 

[FlorianZ]

This seller is too soft, initial price was $45 and lasted for about an hour or two only

Not sure if "too soft". It's old hardware, and they probably got it for free or were paid to recycle it. Moreover, it's flash storage: The longer they have that inventory sitting, the lesser its value. I kind of appreciate that they're not trying to screw us over and allow us to reuse in our homelabs.

 

[Cruzader]

This seller is too soft, initial price was $45 and lasted for about an hour or two only

In my experience they tend to run the offer prices to the end and seem happy to get it out the door.
They are often a decent bit below the rest on list and then accept 20-30% below that again.

Maybe the got more than one person running the ebay side tho.

 

[Layla]

Not sure if "too soft". It's old hardware, and they probably got it for free or were paid to recycle it. Moreover, it's flash storage: The longer they have that inventory sitting, the lesser its value. I kind of appreciate that they're not trying to screw us over and allow us to reuse in our homelabs.

Also, it's not like it's charity - they know that in 6-9mo these drives will be worth even less and selling at this price will move very slowly. If you aren't going to use this stuff, holding on to it is holding a quickly depreciating asset (at least for now, while the world is actively producing NAND flash...)

 

[Cruzader]

For storage its often quite alot coming also, with multiple sellers getting from the same lot and somewhat a fight to get their load out the door.

Like the cloudspeeds falling in price as sellers undercut, several sellers got 20k+ of them to dump.
And they need it gone before they get next batch that might be larger and might tank their value completely.

Often they are not allowed to recycle them, they must be sold to keep the clients green profile.

 

[Whaaat]

And they need it gone before they get next batch that might be larger and might tank their value completely.

You are probably right, that's why I thought that the price has to go down, and 45 -> 55 is not exactly correct direction for going down.
Here is the question for those of you who bought previous batch of these drives for $50/ea. Are they actually 1.6TB or 1.9TB?

 

[pixelBit]

You are probably right, that's why I thought that the price has to go down, and 45 -> 55 is not exactly correct direction for going down.
Here is the question for those of you who bought previous batch of these drives for $50/ea. Are they actually 1.6TB or 1.9TB?

I would ask the seller to state the model number, because the 1.6TB version of the 9200 series model number is different than what the pictures state:




9200 Product Brief


Here's smartctl of the 1.6TB version:

smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.2.16-3-pve] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       Micron_9200_MTFDHAL1T6TCU
Serial Number:                     
Firmware Version:                   101008D0
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x1344
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x00e0cf
Total NVM Capacity:                 1,600,321,314,816 [1.60 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       1.2
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1,600,321,314,816 [1.60 TB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     4096
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            75a000 5a42d21d01
Local Time is:                      Sun Aug 20 22:36:43 2023 PDT

 

[T_Minus]

That's the reason I'm going with nothing but epyc systems. The PCIE slot selection is amazing and it's bifuracated if you need it. Love these epycs.

I'm going to throw the max I can into a Supermicro X10DRX system just for the lols
I think I have 2 of those systems left, will end up turning the 3U into a storage node since it has 3.5" slots and 5.25" slots I can convert to 2.5" NVME \ IcyDock + the boatload of PCIE slots I have with it so will end up something like SAS3 HBAs + PCIE OPTANE + NVME HBAS + JBOD's attached + IcyDock in the chassis + 3.5" HDD for cold storage... they're realy great machines honestly... not fastest performing but for mass storage... 2x x10drx systems for redundancy sure is nice

 

[osrk]

got my four today. They came very nicely packaged and very quick. Each was individually wrapped and had a sticker of when and who tested it. 10/10 packaging.

Here's the smartctl on two the drives I randomly chose to look at at this moment. Overall A LOT of life left in these old girls.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 30 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 2%
Data Units Read: 1,464,613 [749 GB]
Data Units Written: 2,256,929 [1.15 TB]
Host Read Commands: 7,506,610,992
Host Write Commands: 7,489,221,973
Controller Busy Time: 373
Power Cycles: 88
Power On Hours: 36,212
Unsafe Shutdowns: 73
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 34 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 2%
Data Units Read: 799,410 [409 GB]
Data Units Written: 2,740,791 [1.40 TB]
Host Read Commands: 7,507,446,460
Host Write Commands: 7,480,783,422
Controller Busy Time: 404
Power Cycles: 85
Power On Hours: 36,162
Unsafe Shutdowns: 72
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0

I'll test the other two later. Seems like a great deal tbh!

 

[doppler_shift]

Only got my 4 drives today (thanks eBay International Shipping - never using that again). They all run firmware 8DV1RA13 and show up as 98% health remaining, and here are individual SMART stats:

Disk​	Power on count​	Power on hours​	Total reads (GB)​	Total writes (GB)​
1	306	37520	684	47
2	86	36118	1813	1946
3	82	36215	1629	205
4	297	37768	700	537

Overall looks like an awesome deal, thanks OP

 

[SnJ9MX]

Only got my 4 drives today (thanks eBay International Shipping - never using that again). They all run firmware 8DV1RA13 and show up as 98% health remaining, and here are individual SMART stats:

Disk​	Power on count​	Power on hours​	Total reads (GB)​	Total writes (GB)​
1	306	37520	684	47
2	86	36118	1813	1946
3	82	36215	1629	205
4	297	37768	700	537

Overall looks like an awesome deal, thanks OP

interesting they are showing 98% health remaining with virtually zero writes. I have 10 year old consumer SSDs that show less usage at those write amounts

 

[Whaaat]

interesting they are showing 98% health remaining with virtually zero writes. I have 10 year old consumer SSDs that show less usage at those write amounts

Yep, mine arrived with 30GB written only, but 4 years in hot spare mode wasted 2% of its life

Spoiler: 3605