Is it time for a ghost list? is this another ghost?: Samsung BM1743 61TB

[fatherboard]

It's happening again, right before placing orders for U.2 drives, Samsung BM1743 61TB shows up promising 61TB with PCIe 5, the perfect candidate for the very few PCIe 5 MCIO slots on all my Motherboards (only have 3 mcio on each MB). Bit by bit, slowly wasting my life, I realised it's most likely another ghost:
- doesn't even exist on samsung website as a product, but just as blog post from 2024, bringing the news to the universe of the earth shattering achievement
- nowhere to be found on the galaxy
- a few eBay offers from China showing what they claim is a Samsung BM1743 61 TB. While I was be tempted to try one of these, I didn't because of the funny idea of getting a case with something else inside it, some sort of a no-brand PCIe 3 with 1 TB only but it shows 61TB on the firmware, as Linus Tech Tips once showed.

Perhaps it would be good to have a list of ghosts, kind of a shame list, where the illusions are listed, so not everyone wastes part of his/her valuable life considering, searching and asking about a ghost.

So this is my final attempt to check if there is at least 1 copy of it in our galaxy, by asking if anyone has indeed ever even touched something labeled Samsung BM1743 61 TB?

 

[alaricljs]

For real? https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/NVMe/61.44TB/SAMSUNG/MZWMO61THCLF-00AW7_407366.htm

Edit: PS, that took 30s to find.

 

[fatherboard]

For real? https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/NVMe/61.44TB/SAMSUNG/MZWMO61THCLF-00AW7_407366.htm

Edit: PS, that took 30s to find.

Great, fantastic, wonderful, did anyone buy it? is there any user, anyone, who has it? did anyone actually complete the purchase transaction? This is the only way to find out if something is available for sale.

it's not for nothing that I ask "has anyone ever even touched...".

We've seen this before with the other ghost called Solidigm D5-P5336, exactly the same story: a "seller" had only 4 in the whole continent of Europe, and a couple items in the continent of America. Nothing else in the whole galaxy. These were clearly either early concepts for the paper launch or review items. Total drives available in our galaxy was < 10.

And this isn't some theoretical exercise of chasing ghosts, I'm actually ready, for the fourth time, to press the order button, any order button anywhere in Europe for any U.2/U.3 drive that is > 30TB. I'm the right person, I hate being that, to find out if something exists or not. Because tomorrow Monday I don't have an order button to press, and I need to press that button tomorrow. My MCIO slots in all my motherboards are still empty, and every time I get hope it turns out to be a ghost. I only have 3 MCIO slots per MB, so I can't use 30TB or less, it must must be at least 61TB.

Everytime I try to order, I find nothing, end up buying other components and even more machines, but no U.2/U.3 drives >30TB. Now for the fourth time I shortlist new candidates, ready to order on Monday but they turn out to be ghosts.

Here is an earlier post to avoid duplicating the other explanations.

So has anyone even touched a Samsung BM1743 61 TB?

 

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Data retention 3 months. That's the lowest I remember seeing.