Sandisk 1.6 TB SAS SSD $319

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Richard Wad

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I have an LSI laying around, just dislike the boot init times
Seller has sold a number of them, 400gb 800gb and 1.6tb from 170-329. But he is selling one at a time.
 

pgh5278

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Sad he only has one. I would consider it if there was more.
That seller has them available on a continuous basis, from my observation. In fact he has it for sale again, maybe contact him directly if more required.. Probably sells one by one to maintain price..
 
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Boddy

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NB. There is missing CE and other logos on bottom half of white sticker on this drive.
I have bought from this seller before and she shipped an older drive than one in that was pictured.

There seems to be a linked EBay seller that sells similar drives, which I have mainly dealt with:
SanDisk 1.6TB Lighting ECO Gen II - 12Gb/s SAS - 2.5 SSD - SDLTOCKR-016T-5CA1 | eBay

Agree, they tend to offer one drive at a time but can have multiple drives if asked, and you can negotiate discounts for multiple drives.

Anyone tested drives from these sellers?
(I need to get off my butt and flash my M1015, anyone willing to link me to a good thread on how to do this, e.g. @Whitney thread?)
 

serverian

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NB. There is missing CE and other logos on bottom half of white sticker on this drive.
I have bought from this seller before and she shipped an older drive than one in that was pictured.

There seems to be a linked EBay seller that sells similar drives, which I have mainly dealt with:
SanDisk 1.6TB Lighting ECO Gen II - 12Gb/s SAS - 2.5 SSD - SDLTOCKR-016T-5CA1 | eBay

Agree, they tend to offer one drive at a time but can have multiple drives if asked, and you can negotiate discounts for multiple drives.

Anyone tested drives from these sellers?
(I need to get off my butt and flash my M1015, anyone willing to link me to a good thread on how to do this, e.g. @Whitney thread?)
Bought 6 of SanDisk 800GB Lighting Ultra Gen II from the seller. They were listed as "New Other" and they claimed they were never used. When I received them, 1 was DOA and here's the SMART data for the other 5:

Code:
root@debian:~# ./scli getsmart all -a
SanDisk scli version 1.8.0.12
Copyright (C) 2014 SanDisk
01/18/2017  07:11:29


Smart Attributes for /dev/sda - Good
=================================================

ID  Parameter                          Current Value  Threshold Value  Max Reported
--  ---------------------------------  -------------  ---------------  ------------ 
1   Reallocated Block Count            0              389238           0           
2   Temperature                        35 Celsius     85 Celsius       0 Celsius   
3   Power-on Hour In Lifetime          200 Hours      0 Hours          0 Hours     
4   Power Cycle Count                  5029           0                0           
5   Program Fail Count                 0              0                0           
6   Erase Fail Count                   0              0                0           
7   Uncorrectable Error Count          0              0                0           
8   Write Command Count                442686615      0                0           
9   Smart Tests                        0              1                0           
10  Raw Read Error Rate                0              0                0           
11  ECC Rate                           0              0                0           
12  Program Fail Count Port            0              0                0           
13  Erase Fail Count Port              0              0                0           
14  Wear Leveling                      0              0                0           
15  Used Reserved Block Count Port     987            88430            0           
16  Used Reserved Block Count Total    3786           353720           0           
17  Unused Reserved Block Count Total  349934         0                0           
18  Hardware Fail Count                0              1                0           
19  Offline Scan UEC                   0              0                0           
20  CRC error count                    0              0                0           
21  Volatile Memory Fail               0              0                0           
22  Unused Reserved Block Count Port   87443          0                0           
23  Read Error Rate                    0              0                0           
24  Write Error Rate                   0              0                0           
25  Endurance Limit                    0              0                0           
26  Start Unit Time                    18             0                0           
28  CBC Health                         0              100              0           
29  Exception Mode Status              0              0                0           
30  Link Error Event                   123963         0                0           
31  Remaining Device Life              100            0                0           


Smart Attributes for /dev/sdc - Good
=================================================

ID  Parameter                          Current Value  Threshold Value  Max Reported
--  ---------------------------------  -------------  ---------------  ------------ 
1   Reallocated Block Count            0              389127           0           
2   Temperature                        29 Celsius     85 Celsius       0 Celsius   
3   Power-on Hour In Lifetime          58 Hours       0 Hours          0 Hours     
4   Power Cycle Count                  19             0                0           
5   Program Fail Count                 0              0                0           
6   Erase Fail Count                   0              0                0           
7   Uncorrectable Error Count          0              0                0           
8   Write Command Count                341792754      0                0           
9   Smart Tests                        0              1                0           
10  Raw Read Error Rate                0              0                0           
11  ECC Rate                           0              0                0           
12  Program Fail Count Port            0              0                0           
13  Erase Fail Count Port              0              0                0           
14  Wear Leveling                      0              0                0           
15  Used Reserved Block Count Port     1022           88430            0           
16  Used Reserved Block Count Total    3897           353720           0           
17  Unused Reserved Block Count Total  349823         0                0           
18  Hardware Fail Count                0              1                0           
19  Offline Scan UEC                   0              0                0           
20  CRC error count                    1              0                0           
21  Volatile Memory Fail               0              0                0           
22  Unused Reserved Block Count Port   87408          0                0           
23  Read Error Rate                    0              0                0           
24  Write Error Rate                   0              0                0           
25  Endurance Limit                    0              0                0           
26  Start Unit Time                    21             0                0           
28  CBC Health                         0              100              0           
29  Exception Mode Status              0              0                0           
30  Link Error Event                   6179           0                0           
31  Remaining Device Life              100            0                0           


Smart Attributes for /dev/sdd - Good
=================================================

ID  Parameter                          Current Value  Threshold Value  Max Reported
--  ---------------------------------  -------------  ---------------  ------------ 
1   Reallocated Block Count            0              389276           0           
2   Temperature                        34 Celsius     0 Celsius        0 Celsius   
3   Power-on Hour In Lifetime          485 Hours      0 Hours          0 Hours     
4   Power Cycle Count                  21             0                0           
5   Program Fail Count                 0              0                0           
6   Erase Fail Count                   0              0                0           
7   Uncorrectable Error Count          0              0                0           
8   Write Command Count                3331182392     0                0           
9   Smart Tests                        0              1                0           
10  Raw Read Error Rate                0              0                0           
11  ECC Rate                           0              0                0           
12  Program Fail Count Port            0              0                0           
13  Erase Fail Count Port              0              0                0           
14  Wear Leveling                      0              0                0           
15  Used Reserved Block Count Port     977            17686            0           
16  Used Reserved Block Count Total    3748           70744            0           
17  Unused Reserved Block Count Total  66996          0                0           
18  Hardware Fail Count                0              1                0           
19  Offline Scan UEC                   0              0                0           
20  CRC error count                    0              0                0           
21  Volatile Memory Fail               0              0                0           
22  Unused Reserved Block Count Port   16709          0                0           
23  Read Error Rate                    0              0                0           
24  Write Error Rate                   0              0                0           
25  Endurance Limit                    0              0                0           
26  Start Unit Time                    21             0                0           
28  CBC Health                         0              100              0           
29  Exception Mode Status              0              0                0           
30  Link Error Event                   416157320      0                0           
31  Remaining Device Life              100            0                0           


Smart Attributes for /dev/sde - Good
=================================================

ID  Parameter                          Current Value  Threshold Value  Max Reported
--  ---------------------------------  -------------  ---------------  ------------ 
1   Reallocated Block Count            0              389138           0           
2   Temperature                        31 Celsius     85 Celsius       0 Celsius   
3   Power-on Hour In Lifetime          231 Hours      0 Hours          0 Hours     
4   Power Cycle Count                  5029           0                0           
5   Program Fail Count                 0              0                0           
6   Erase Fail Count                   0              0                0           
7   Uncorrectable Error Count          0              0                0           
8   Write Command Count                464715483      0                0           
9   Smart Tests                        0              1                0           
10  Raw Read Error Rate                0              0                0           
11  ECC Rate                           0              0                0           
12  Program Fail Count Port            0              0                0           
13  Erase Fail Count Port              0              0                0           
14  Wear Leveling                      0              0                0           
15  Used Reserved Block Count Port     1031           88430            0           
16  Used Reserved Block Count Total    3886           353720           0           
17  Unused Reserved Block Count Total  349834         0                0           
18  Hardware Fail Count                0              1                0           
19  Offline Scan UEC                   0              0                0           
20  CRC error count                    0              0                0           
21  Volatile Memory Fail               0              0                0           
22  Unused Reserved Block Count Port   87399          0                0           
23  Read Error Rate                    0              0                0           
24  Write Error Rate                   0              0                0           
25  Endurance Limit                    0              0                0           
26  Start Unit Time                    18             0                0           
28  CBC Health                         0              100              0           
29  Exception Mode Status              0              0                0           
30  Link Error Event                   758707         0                0           
31  Remaining Device Life              100            0                0           

Command Executed Successfully.
I've sent a message to them about them being not "never used" and they said they told me they were used, which wasn't the case.

In the end, I've returned them and got a refund except the shipping fees. They declined refunding the shipping fees and they have escalated the case to eBay. eBay was fair and refunded the shipping fees and closed the case.
 

Boddy

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Thanks @serverian for your valuable feed back. Am I reading the figures correctly, writes between 300 to 400 GB aprox? Cheers :)
 

ColPanic

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Personally, I'd consider those close enough to new. As long as they aren't DOA getting drives that have been tested for a few days is a good thing.
 

T_Minus

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Why is the power cycle count so high (>5000) for less than 300 power on hours? I've gotten some drives with xx,xxx power on hours that have <50 power cycles... maybe just invalid SMART data?
 

Boddy

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That's about an average of 22 power cycles per hour, per life of the drive??? Crazy.
I wondered if they are 'returns' or in some instances (without CE and other logos), customer samples or engineering samples.
Otherwise perhaps the SMART data is invalid or manipulated???
 

fake-name

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Would anyone happen to know the controller in these drives?

There's basically nothing whatsoever about them on sandisk's site, or that I can find on google.
 

dtrv

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If these devices missing CE logo it would be impossible to import to European Union. How could this be possible? From what country are they imported?

Is it worth the risk?
 

Evan

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Product validate drives ?? For testing maybe, are they final spec or early spec ?