Samsung PM853T drives too old?

[986box]

Are Samsung PM853T drives too old? Looking to acquire 3x SSD 1TB drives to create another vdev. Or go with Intel S3700?

 

[itronin]

a big difference is that PM853T are TLC and Intel DC S3700 are MLC.

Depending on your use case I'd probably look at the IOPS between the two and then possibly the write endurance if your need is not WORM.

Did intel make a 960GB S3700? I thought it went to 800GB.

 

[Gene]

I've got a PM853T still going strong. I got it for good write endurance and it hasn't had an issue yet

 

[986box]

TLC is supposedly slower than MLC. For my use case, getting the highest performance is not top of the list.

eBay is selling 960GB for around $90.

 

[Wasmachineman_NL]

TLC is supposedly slower than MLC. For my use case, getting the highest performance is not top of the list.

eBay is selling 960GB for around $90.

That's pretty expensive ngl, I paid around €80-100 for 960GB SM863's about a year or two ago.

 

[itronin]

That's pretty expensive ngl, I paid around €80-100 for 960GB SM863's about a year or two ago.

yes. I sold ~16 to a forum users here (with a server) and I think I was pricing the 853T's around 50USD each or so... I may still have 2-3 kicking around and I can check for ya tomorrow. In low quantity price won't be 50 though...

FWIW I do think the 853T is a solid drive. Cisco used this drive quite a bit for a while - all of mine were Cisco firmware.

 

[986box]

Good to know these drives are still recommended. I’ll be patience and wait for a better deal.