"RANDOM" Samsung/SK Hynix 960GB M.2 NVME 22110 Enterprise/Server SSD $27.99 w/Free Shipping

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I've gotten 5 of these over the last few weeks. They sent me:
  • 3 x with under 100 POH, ~100GB written, 0 Minutes of temperature warnings. (2x PM983 & 1x PM963)
  • 1 x with ~10K POH & ~1.5TB Written. 0 Minutes of temperature warnings (PM963)
  • 1 x with ~15k POH & ~1.5TB Written, 65 Minutes "Warning Temperature Time", & 45 Minutes "Critical Composite Temperature Time" (PM953)
All passed Samsung's test suite and had no other SMART warnings or errors.

Searching the web, I found a LOT of people with a lot more temperature warning time (some in the 10s of thousands) on their PM953 than 65 & 45 Minutes, and over less than a 15K lifetime (EDIT: These other results were NOT from this seller as far as I know, they were just SMART results people had posted online). So I guess getting hot isn't uncommon? Maybe offset by the three with quite literally no time or writes on them.
 
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Well crud @Fritz! I was thinking of grabbing a few more just yesterday, and you just had to go and post these. OOS. :eek:

Before anyone gets too sad though...this seller posts in batches, so its possible they'll post more soon. They went out of stock twice now on the 1.92TB CloudSpeed ECO II drives already so far and they keep posting more as they pull them it seems.
 
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Markess said:
Well crud @Fritz! I was thinking of grabbing a few more just yesterday, and you just had to go and post these. OOS. :eek:

Before anyone gets too sad though...this seller posts in batches, so its possible they'll post more soon. They went out of stock twice now on the 1.92TB CloudSpeed ECO II drives already so far and they keep posting more as they pull them it seems.
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How do you like the CloudSpeed ECOs? Are they enterprise enterprise?
 
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I have no Cloudspeed ECOs.

Was just using them as an example of how this seller will sell out a batch, then list more a few days later.

I do keep adding them to my cart, then stopping myself at the last minute, because I really don't need them right now. Then they sell out, and I think, "Well I successfully avoided that! Good on me!" Then they list more a couple days later, and the temptation starts all over again.
 
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On German eBay you can get new 1TB Team Group MP34 (Gen3) with 1.7PBW for 50EUR (400K IOPS R/W). Picking them up one-by-one. We had these SKHynix in our environment and they suck. As a 'read' cache only ... fine, but do not write to them. Samsung ... it's just Samsung with all implications.
 
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Real experience is ~3200/2700 R/W and 400/400K. No PLP but they are running behind NVDIMM-N and UPS as fast temporary storage. Check this store from time to time >> olano.gmbh | eBay Shops. They also have Team Group CARDEA A440s on offer for ~110EUR (2TB) and 59EUR (1TB). These have also 1.5PBW and are excellent for cheap and fast storage (7,000/6,900 MB/s and 650K/700K IOPS) with focus on writes if you need Gen4. But I need Gen3 therefore I'm going with the MP34.
 
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Markess said:
I have no Cloudspeed ECOs.

Was just using them as an example of how this seller will sell out a batch, then list more a few days later.

I do keep adding them to my cart, then stopping myself at the last minute, because I really don't need them right now. Then they sell out, and I think, "Well I successfully avoided that! Good on me!" Then they list more a couple days later, and the temptation starts all over again.
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I know what you mean. My cart is full with 1-2TB ssds. I am having FOMO, if the prices go up I will miss out.
 
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Filez said:
I know what you mean. My cart is full with 1-2TB ssds. I am having FOMO, if the prices go up I will miss out.
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I'm trying to take the long view, and since I'm homelabbing, the data needs don't spike very often. So, I've got time to plan. Being old(er), I remember being stoked at the great deal I got when I finally bought NEW hard drives for the first time. 80 whole MEGABYTES for only around $80 as I recall. Now, I'm vacillating on almost 2 TERABYTES for about half as much. I figure when I really need the space in a year or so, something even bigger and with more endurance will be retired in huge quantities and dumped on Ebay.
 
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Okay, bought two of them. Think I might RAID 0 them for shits 'n giggles and store something like VRCache on them since that's data I don't give a shit about if it gets corrupted.
 
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Based off the way flash prices have been plummeting, I would call this a fair price for a used 960GB drive.
this would give you the PLP and higher rated endurance compared to a new consumer drive, if you need that...
 
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EasyRhino said:
Based off the way flash prices have been plummeting, I would call this a fair price for a used 960GB drive.
this would give you the PLP and higher rated endurance compared to a new consumer drive, if you need that...
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Between this seller and another I bought from a few months back, I got a total of 8 of these for $25-28 each. The worst wear was about 7.5TB. That's about "6 days of wear" when the drive is rated at 1.3 DWPD. So as close to "new" as you're likely to get.

At 960GB, you wind up with a lot of drives spread out (I've got them all in a single LGA2066 workstation board), but it will work for me till the 3+TB stuff comes down in price a bit more...which it seems to be doing.
 
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