S3700 200Gb OS drive

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Sergio

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I got 2 x S3700 200Gb new even with the blister (70$ each)!!

I think it was a really nice deal, warranty until 2020. I was thinking to use them to install the OS. What would you use this drives for? After checking with crystaldiskinfo that they are actually new, I think I should get a few more.

I also have in mind to get 2xS3500 480Gb new (120$), I could use this drive as a datastore. What do you think about this drive? Is it good for that?
 

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Sergio

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Not problem at all ;)

They are base in Mexico, in Mercadolibre kind of the Mexican ebay I found pretty decent SSD:

Unidad Estado Sólido 200gb Intel S3700 Empresarial Nuevo!! - $ 1,590.00 (around 70-80$ depending on the exchange)

Unidad De Estado Solido Ssd Micron M500dc 800gb 0 Horas Uso - $ 2,600.00 (140 USD)

Disco Solido Ssd 960 Gb Samsung Pm 863 0 Horas De Uso - $ 3,200.00 (170USD)

Disco Duro Intel Ssd Dc S3500 Series 480 Gb 2.5 100% Nuevo - $ 2,495.00 (135 USD)

I don't really know if they send internationally but you could try though. I'm thiking in getting the S3500 480Gb. Basically I want a SSD to store the VMs, Do you think that's a good drive or should I go for the PM863?
 
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T_Minus

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I would go with the S3700 and S3500.

I would try to do raid10 for VMs, and the S3700 will perform better than the S3500 due to increased write IOPs.
 
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Sergio

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There are still available 5x S3700 200Gb and 5x S3500 480Gb, the only issue is with raid10 I would use 4 SATA and the Xeon-D 1528 only has 6 SATA .

Do you think this would be faster than using a NVMe (either m2 or PCI).
 

T_Minus

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You need more than 4 in raid10 to > Enterprise NVME.
 

T_Minus

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Depends on the drive. P3320 maybe. P3600/ P3700, the newer HGST drives and etc are faster than 4 in RAID 0.
Not sure if I'm misreading what you wrote or you're misreading what I wrote.

I was replying to him about using 4x SATA SSD in RAID10, and stating that 4 would not cut it to be higher performing than 1 P3600 / P3700 NVME. Specifically referring to the S3500 / S3700 he mentioned.

Assuming you are talking about the HGST 12Gb/s drives... 4x of those in RAID0 would be awesome :) I'm still waiting to score some more at <$150 for 200GB and <$400 for larger.
 
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We just ordered some of the new HGST 12gb 800GB drives at a client. Can't wait to try them out.