Micron 5200 ECO 3.84TB SATA SSD $99.50

[JJ27]

Seems that the time for ~4TB cheap SSD is here.

I just got an offer for that amount, countered with $92 but I got a counter for $99.5

Will take the chance with this one for my PS4

Here's the link -> Micron SSD 5200 ECO TCG-E MTFDDAK3T8TDC 3.84TB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive | eBay

 

[Sacrilego]

Seems like it didn't last too long. Listed at 129.89 + Shipping with no Make offer.

 

[JJ27]

For me, they sent the offer after a couple of hours in the watchlist.

 

[e97]

Nice. $25/TB is great, but this is older SATA vs NVMe. 7.7 PB (ECO) endurance

datasheet attached.

 

[Sacrilego]

For me, they sent the offer after a couple of hours in the watchlist.

Oh, I didn't know that. And now that I read your OP I realize I failed reading comprehension lol.

 

[Sacrilego]

Nice. $25/TB is great, but this is older SATA vs NVMe. 17.6PB endurance

datasheet attached.

These are ECO, so it's 7.7PB endurance. Still not bad.

 

[SnJ9MX]

These are ECO, so it's 7.7PB endurance. Still not bad.

Also far easier to stick >4 in any enclosure/server/disk shelf. NVMe >4 becomes expensive quickly.

 

[Samir]

I've got a crazy inclination to put one of these in a nas along side a 4TB HD and run them raid1--bad idea?

 

[unwind-protect]

I've got a crazy inclination to put one of these in a nas along side a 4TB HD and run them raid1--bad idea?

At least with mdraid and ZFS no problem at all. BIOS raid I dunno.

Waiting for the offer

 

[Sacrilego]

I've got a crazy inclination to put one of these in a nas along side a 4TB HD and run them raid1--bad idea?

I think it's a bad idea. While it may work, your speed is going to be limited to that of the HD.

 

[Samir]

At least with mdraid and ZFS no problem at all. BIOS raid I dunno.

Waiting for the offer

I think most nas units use mdadm (or whatever it is today) so I think that aspect would be fine. Good to hear about zf handling it.

 

[Samir]

I think it's a bad idea. While it may work, your speed is going to be limited to that of the HD.

Good point, although that wasn't what I was worried about. I was thinking more on the lines of the raid sync timing being outside of parameters (hdd to hdd timing or sdd to sdd timing vs hdd to sdd), so then it would think one of the drives is bad.

 

[amp88]

I think most nas units use mdadm (or whatever it is today) so I think that aspect would be fine. Good to hear about zf handling it.

If you're using mdraid and you're able to manually configure it, you may wish to investigate the use of the write-mostly feature. Using this, your write speed will still be limited to the slowest member in the mirror, but your read performance should be that of the fastest member (your SSD in this case). For a mostly read workload from your NAS this could be a benefit.

 

[unwind-protect]

It is not certain that a RAID1 with one slow and one fast device will always perform at the level of the faster device for read access.

It would be rather trivial to stage reads so that they don't strictly alternate but get batched so that the faster device will satisfy multiple reads for every single read the slower device serves.

 

[Samir]

If you're using mdraid and you're able to manually configure it, you may wish to investigate the use of the write-mostly feature. Using this, your write speed will still be limited to the slowest member in the mirror, but your read performance should be that of the fastest member (your SSD in this case). For a mostly read workload from your NAS this could be a benefit.

Very neat to see this feature. I'm just using the usual single box commodity nas units, so probably can't do this without some sort of hacking, but interesting that it's possible.

 

[Cadal]

Awww

 

[Samir]

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Holy cow that's close to one of my sites...I know I have to be at that site by the end of the month. If you can figure out how hard it would be for me to ship some to you, you could just ship them to my site and I could ship them to you.

 

[zunder1990]

I got one of those drives wow they shipped it fast to me here in SC.
Smart says the drive has 46 power on hours and 4 power cycle, I find that a bit hard to believe

 

[Generic George]

Seems that the time for ~4TB cheap SSD is here.

I just got an offer for that amount, countered with $92 but I got a counter for $99.5

Will take the chance with this one for my PS4

Here's the link -> Micron SSD 5200 ECO TCG-E MTFDDAK3T8TDC 3.84TB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive | eBay

If you are just after storage, it won't hurt, but I've tried adding an SSD to my PS4 and it just doesn't doesn't help anything to any noticeable degree.

 

[Samir]

I got one of those drives wow they shipped it fast to me here in SC.
Smart says the drive has 46 power on hours and 4 power cycle, I find that a bit hard to believe
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Could have been on some sort of offline backup array, hence the low duty cycle. I would look at the number bytes read and written to get a better idea of use as that's more critical for ssds anyways.