Samsung SM1625 SAS SSDs

[Patrick]

I am considering adding these to the round-up. SSD Product Catalogue | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website

Personally, I would be willing to use Samsung drives in a datacenter environment. I did not find much on reviews, other than with a dual port controller one is supposed to be able to hit over 800MB/s per drive. The press release says these have power loss protection and 10 drive writes per day for 5 years.

Since there are so few reviews, anything I should be aware of?

 

[MiniKnight]

I'm wary of products with no reviews... at all. Samsung does make lots of SSDs though

 

[Patrick]

If anyone is interested (probably an ULTRA HOT deal) - I picked up 4 of these for $390. 2@ $100 auto accepted. 2@ $95 accepted. $75/ea was rejected automatically.

Samsung MZ 6ER200T 003 200GB Enterprise 2 5" SSD SAS 2 0 6GB s Solid State HD | eBay

The seller still has 4 left.

 

[Hank C]

how did you find such a deal...

 

[dba]

Darn, I missed that one!

If anyone is interested (probably an ULTRA HOT deal) - I picked up 4 of these for $390. 2@ $100 auto accepted. 2@ $95 accepted. $75/ea was rejected automatically.

Samsung MZ 6ER200T 003 200GB Enterprise 2 5" SSD SAS 2 0 6GB s Solid State HD | eBay

The seller still has 4 left.

 

[Patrick]

Darn, I missed that one!

I feel there is a good chance I am going to regret getting "only" 4.

 

[Hank C]

i grabbed the last one...

 

[Chuntzu]

Thanks for the heads up picked up the other three.

 

[Chuntzu]

Trying to figure out how to run in wide port mode. I believe direct attach dual port SAS cable is the only way to achieve that per sandisk. This is the only info I was able to find on running wide port. http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/8509/~/wide-port-mode-for-lightning-ssd /URL]

 

[Patrick]

So the four drives arrived today. Similar larger form factor like the Pliant / Sandisk Lightning SAS SSDs.

I have 2 in the bench rig right now.

 

[Chuntzu]

Let me know how it goes still haven't got mine yet

 

[Patrick]

They make the SLC Pliant 206s's look slow. Like 2x the higher QD 4K and sequential speeds on the quick benchmarks. They are hitting a full 550MB/s read/ write in ATTO too using only single-port configuration.

 

[pyro_]

Really wish I could have gotten in on these

 

[Chuntzu]

Nice! Really glad to see these are quick, going to be using as wb cache with nl-sas drives with storage spaces.

 

[Chuntzu]

Supposedly per sandisk email I just got to enable wide port you use the windows mpio driver....not shire how still, but at least I'm getting somewhere on figuring out how to enable wide port config.

 

[Patrick]

Samsung SM1625 200GB benchmarks posted. iometer is in the middle of beating the drive. 8 hours in thus far.

 

[Hank C]

what's the IOPS?

 

[Stanza]

Supposedly per sandisk email I just got to enable wide port you use the windows mpio driver....not shire how still, but at least I'm getting somewhere on figuring out how to enable wide port config.

From a while ago

Dual Port SAS cables. - [H]ard|Forum

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[Patrick]

From a while ago

Dual Port SAS cables. - [H]ard|Forum

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Hmmm.. another $90 for two cables. I saw cheaper 7-pin SATA ones on ebay but then I need to convert to SFF8087.

 

[Hank C]

found what you need but it'll be 24 bay though...
New Intel Storage System JBOD2224S2DP 24BAY 2 5" | eBay