New Intel Optane p4800x 375GB for $160

[Nixoid]

Just received one of 2 I ordered from eBay.
Pictures of package and test attached
Looks original for me.
tested on Dell r730xd, backplate with NVMe support.

 

[Nixoid]

Original application from Intel web site recognize Optane correct.

 

[Nixoid]

I think THIS is great deal for NEW enterprise class Optane.

 

[geonap]

so how do we find out if these were smart wiped? that's the question.

 

[Nixoid]

so how do we find out if these were smart wiped? that's the question.

1: Not sure if it possible on Optane.
2: Why I make photos of package: google original p4800x package and compare it.
3: C'mon man, it's not zero in smart info: it's 3 power on, one of them mine.. And connections on SSD looks virgin.
4: Original Intell app told us it's have 100% endurance.

Don't buy it, it's definitely fake.

 

[nexox]

I'm not exactly into buying expensive electronics direct from China, but I would be at least a little impressed if someone managed to write to a p4800x enough to noticably hurt the lifetime.

Edit: That said, there are 750GB p4800x U.2 drives available from a US seller for cheaper per GB, I'd just go that way, because 375GB is a bit small.

 

[chrgrose]

At that price per GB I would rather use a cascade lake system with 256GB/512GB NVDIMMs. Am I missing something?

 

[Nixoid]

At that price per GB I would rather use a cascade lake system with 256GB/512GB NVDIMMs. Am I missing something?

I'll use that Optane on mirror for ZFS special vDev - metadata and small files.
On dual Xeon e5-26xx v4 with 512GB of RAM.
And yes, you missed something. 3D-XPoint not a RAM, but if your power blink, everything on Optane p4800x/p5800x (even 900/905 or 800/1600)will be alive.. everything in RAM will be dead.

 

[Nixoid]

I'm not exactly into buying expensive electronics direct from China, but I would be at least a little impressed if someone managed to write to a p4800x enough to noticably hurt the lifetime.

Edit: That said, there are 750GB p4800x U.2 drives available from a US seller for cheaper per GB, I'd just go that way, because 375GB is a bit small.

Can you share link for NEW 750GB Optane with less price for GB?

 

[nexox]

Newness doesn't really matter when a drive can take 30PB or whatever of writes.

 

[heromode]

I'd like to understand why the chinese have massive amounts of any hardware i'm looking for, these optane drives as an example, and also motherboards and CPU's, where do they come from?

Those pictures sure look like original HW, i mean faking everything including that packaging would be insane..

Traditionally i have preferred europe, but maybe i should just give up and start ordering from china..

 

[iGene]

I'd like to understand why the chinese have massive amounts of any hardware i'm looking for, these optane drives as an example, and also motherboards and CPU's, where do they come from?

As far as I know most of them are retired hardware. I will say most of them is authentic, there are some fake stuffs but usually the price is way too low compare to other sellers making them easy to notice.

 

[RobstarUSA]

Assuming I'm setting up a new truenas box (Ryzen 3900x @ 65w, 128G ecc ram, no de-dup) is there an advantage of using these over the 3.2TB P4600s I picked up for some sort of cache? I've read optane is ideal esp for de-dup, but assuming I'm not doin de-dup, would these make a noticeable difference?

 

[JHanko]

I think this is a pretty good deal, but the 960GB Optane 905P is newer, faster and cheaper per GB. Another plus is it's coming from a well known US seller. I don't know how much longer the sale is, or how many they have left. They are selling like crazy.

Intel Optane 960GB 905P 2.5" x 15mm, U.2, PCIe 3.0 x4, 3D XPoint Internal SSD 735858342872 | eBay

Optane SSD 905P Series. Part Number.

www.ebay.com

 

[Nixoid]

Assuming I'm setting up a new truenas box (Ryzen 3900x @ 65w, 128G ecc ram, no de-dup) is there an advantage of using these over the 3.2TB P4600s I picked up for some sort of cache? I've read optane is ideal esp for de-dup, but assuming I'm not doin de-dup, would these make a noticeable difference?

I'll use Optane for metadata. It will outlast few generations of HDD
And by latency it faster than most modern SSD, even NVMe.
Ideal for cashing because of latency and endurance.

 

[jhartbarger]

I made an offer of $150 each for 2 of these from a very similar seller a couple a weeks ago and they just arrived, they were still factory sealed and I ran some tests on them and also verified the serials for authenticity.

 

[Nixoid]

I made an offer of $150 each for 2 of these from a very similar seller a couple a weeks ago and they just arrived, they were still factory sealed and I ran some tests on them and also verified the serials for authenticity.

Mine arrived in factory sealed box too.
I think if you buy in bulk, you can do best offer around 150. They have small banch of them 10-20.. not so negotiable.

 

[jhartbarger]

I decided I need 1 more so we shall see if he accepts my $150 again

 

[Nixoid]

I decided I need 1 more so we shall see if he accepts my $150 again

Let us know.

 

[computably]

I think this is a pretty good deal, but the 960GB Optane 905P is newer, faster and cheaper per GB. Another plus is it's coming from a well known US seller. I don't know how much longer the sale is, or how many they have left. They are selling like crazy.

Intel Optane 960GB 905P 2.5" x 15mm, U.2, PCIe 3.0 x4, 3D XPoint Internal SSD 735858342872 | eBay

Optane SSD 905P Series. Part Number.

www.ebay.com

You may as well buy direct from them : https://www.newegg.com/intel-optane-ssd-905p-series-960gb/p/N82E16820167463

They have 1.5TB models for almost the same $/GB, too.

Main upside to P4800X is it has 3x the DWPD. But it's bordering on abuse if you manage to write over 17PB of data to one 905p...