Canada Refurb Samsung Data Center SV843 960GB $230 (NewEgg.ca)

[Zathras]

It's not quite as tempting as the Intel drives being sold off NewEgg in the US, but since they refuse to accept international payments this might be a good deal for us Canadians:
SAMSUNG Data Center Series SV843 2.5" 960GB SATA III V1 MLC VNAND Enterprise Solid State Drive

No mention of quantity available. The few reviews so far suggest minimal usage of the drives, so they may be a good buy, especially if you have free shipping (save $6). In terms of $/GB it definitely works out cheaper than some Intel drives from eBay after exchange rate + shipping.

STH benches here.

 

[J--]

That's really only 5 bucks more when you convert the canadian peso to USD.

 

[nev_neo]

Are these drives good tho ?
That one newegg review about SMART stats being faked is scaring me off.

 

[RobertFontaine]

When I look at the iops between an s3500
− Random 4KB3 Reads: Up to 75,000 IOPS
Random 4KB Writes: Up to 11,500 IOPS

OCZ 3700 claims
4KB Random Reads Up to 82,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write Up to 12,000 IOPS

and this ssd SV843
4KB Random Read Up to 88,000 IOPS
4KB Random Writes Up to 14,000 IOPS

It appears that the SV843 outperforms the S3500 amd the OCZ 3700

Is this a true statement?

 

[alex1002]

I want 4 of these damn....

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[max88]

Bought one @ 249.99, and bought two more @ 229.99. All 3 had 0GB write, 3 power ups, and 0 hour, according to Crystal Disk. All are like brand new with zero scratches.

Ran some ATTO disk benchmark, in 5 different scenarios. One #1 is what's expected. All others suffer on READ 256KB~512KB, event 1MB (this is probably why these SSD's are selling as refurbished).

They are going to a supermicro D1541 mini tower. Will post more benchmark after some disk shuffling.

HBA adds overhead, VM adds more overhead, resulting in most overhead in #4.
1. Onboard SATA3 controller, physical
2. LSI 9240-8i IT mode, physical
3. Onboard SATA controller, VMware datastore
4. LSI 9240-8i IT mode, VMware datastore
5. LSI 9240-8i IT mode, VMware direct-IO

 

[max88]

Intel S3710 - 400GB for reference. Benchmarks are consistent across all 5 scenarios.

 

[max88]

Ran the same 5 benchmarks on SuperMicro SYS-5028D-TN4T with Xeon D1541. The results are the same as those on ASRock z77 Ext4 i7-3770: Samsung SV843 SSD and LSI 9240-8i IT mode have shown slower than expected READ performance on 256KB/512KB/1MB.

512KB is similar to STH benchmarks Samsung SV843 960GB Quick Benchmarks

My usage profile is 3. Onboard SATA controller, VMware datastore. The only lagging is READ 256KB (or anything between 128KB and 512KB). I don't anticipate this will be an issue. Overall I am happy with the purchase.