Nm! I mixed this up with the 1725a here -> https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-nvme-hhhl-aic-ssd-new-999.28527/#post-272865
Samsung/Oracle F320 3.2TB NVME AIC $209.99 OBO
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One of the last threads about these at 270-280$ area should have fairly recent firmware and links on reflashing it as samsung for better support.
Looked at them before but dropped it due to consumption, if accepting 170 area its probably the cheapest they have been.
Looked at them before but dropped it due to consumption, if accepting 170 area its probably the cheapest they have been.
I do believe this is basically a 1725...
*on edit* now I just have to figure out how I want to connect it to my server or desktop (both of which already have their native PCIe slots filled up). I wonder if I can nab the 4.0 NVMe slot and convert it to a PCIe slot instead of running a 500GB SSD in that slot...
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Most listings for these do have pm1725 in the title so i suppose the clues are there indeed
This is more or less what you should do with all SSDs these days..there have been so many bugs from many vendors, although especially Samsung seems to have a rather bad track record there..
Maybe try the one in this thread: https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-nvme-hhhl-aic-ssd-new-999.28527/#post-272865
Thanks. I was whining more generally about Samsung SSD firmware. I have a ton of SM863 and there appears to be no firmware freely available.
That's the second latest firmware.
Your numbers look good. 6% used is nothing. The one I got is also 6% used but unfortunately shows 84% of spare available..which isn't so great. Not too worried though as this is my cold spare (have a couple of these in use and wanted a third one should one fail).
Spare is the space used for fixing various issues (bad blocks, performance etc) with. It is not a part of the nominal space (i.e. 3.2T in this case). Most if not all SSDs have have such an area but NVME drives tend to report it better than SATA/SAS in my experience.
Basically 84% spare remaining means it's had to repair itself at some point by taking some of the saved-for-the-rainy-day capacity into use. Not ideal but not a disaster either as long as that number stays put..
Thank you! That is very helpful to know. I bought one as well, so we’ll see when mine gets here how its health is. Assuming mine comes similar (say 80s% spare) when’s a good timeframe to check for continued progression of decay (weeks, months, ect)? I assume writes are what are likely to cause continued loss more so than reads…
You'd probably want to keep an eye on it the same way as you would monitor reallocated sector count elsewhere.. Not quite the same thing but ideally you don't want either value changing.
It's all about how you value your data and how paranoid you are
Generic 'LSI style' SAS HBA brackets work fine. They're rather inexpensive on ebay etc.