Sandisk SX350 3.2TB SSD 230 USD

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tommybackeast

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I have never used an item such as this; so here goes a silly question>

I have a Dell r720xd LFF (including two rear FlexBay). It's running ESXi (via Thumbdrive); and I run VMs on it. One VM (FreeNAS) I have done Pass-Through of the 310 card and use the front 12 LFF bays for FreeNAS Storage.

I have empty PCIe slot. Could a card like this be put into a Dell r720's PCI slot?

if yes, how would I be able to use it? could I use it as another ESXi DataStore?
 
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I'm using one of these for vSphere 6.7 right now and they are definitely amazing, especially at this price. I got mine for $250 about 3 months ago and felt it was a steal at that price. Below is a speed check I just ran as an example. (it's got a few other disks running on it at the same time on other VMs in parallel as well)
 

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Heh, so that SX350 I picked up from the OP's link only has 7TB written. That's literally brand new. That's two drive writes for QA purposes prior to shipping.

I'm about to put it through a few more overwrites just to make sure all is good after shipping/etc. before I put any data on it.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> fio-status -a

Found 1 VSL driver package:
4.3.6 build 1173 Storport Driver: loaded

Found 1 ioMemory device in this system

Adapter: ioMono (driver 4.3.6)
ioMemory SX350-3200, Product Number:SDFADAMOS-3T20-SF1, SN:1711D0154, FIO SN:1711D0154
ioMemory Adapter Controller, PN:5491-72374-3200G
Product UUID:f015a84a-d69f-5a8e-b366-83ba1773333d
PCIe Bus voltage: avg 12.21V
PCIe Bus current: avg 0.63A
PCIe Bus power: avg 7.70W
PCIe Power limit threshold: 24.75W
PCIe slot available power: unavailable
Connected ioMemory modules:
fct0: 03:00.0, Product Number:SDFADAMOS-3T20-SF1, SN:1711D0154

fct0 Attached
ioMemory Adapter Controller, Product Number:SDFADAMOS-3T20-SF1, SN:1711D0154
ioMemory Adapter Controller, PN:5491-72374-3200G
Microcode Versions: App:0.0.15.0
Powerloss protection: protected
PCI:03:00.0, Slot Number:6
Vendor:1aed, Device:3002, Sub vendor:1aed, Sub device:3002
Firmware v8.9.9, rev 20190313 Public
3200.00 GBytes device size
Format: v501, 781250000 sectors of 4096 bytes
PCIe slot available power: 25.00W
PCIe negotiated link: 8 lanes at 5.0 Gt/sec each, 4000.00 MBytes/sec total
Internal temperature: 39.87 degC, max 54.14 degC
Internal voltage: avg 1.01V, max 1.02V
Aux voltage: avg 1.80V, max 1.82V
Reserve space status: Healthy; Reserves: 100.00%, warn at 10.00%
Active media: 100.00%
Rated PBW: 11.00 PB, 99.93% remaining
Lifetime data volumes:
Physical bytes written: 7,985,099,406,688
Physical bytes read : 5,110,508,367,872
RAM usage:
Current: 313,742,976 bytes
Peak : 361,678,656 bytes
Contained Virtual Partitions:
fct0: ID:0, UUID:128461df-1f14-4c47-8b77-275d6e1c6af2

fct0 State: Online, Type: block device, Device: \\?\PhysicalDrive1
ID:0, UUID:128461df-1f14-4c47-8b77-275d6e1c6af2
3200.00 GBytes device size
Format: 781250000 sectors of 4096 bytes
Sectors In Use: 781248512
Max Physical Sectors Allowed: 781250000
Min Physical Sectors Reserved: 781250000
 
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Heh, so that SX350 I picked up from the OP's link only has 7TB written. That's literally brand new. That's two drive writes for QA purposes prior to shipping.

I'm about to put it through a few more overwrites just to make sure all is good after shipping/etc. before I put any data on it.
Solid! Thank you for posting! :D
 

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I believe the 3.2TB card has 11PB endurance.
I have few cards that has 1PB written, 10PB more to go.
I may use up remaing 10PB in my next life. ;)
 
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I believe the 3.2TB card has 11PB endurance.
I have few cards that has 1PB written, 10PB more to go.
I may use up remaing 10PB in my next life. ;)
The durability of these cards is what I love. They will be even cheaper when they hit a few PB...and then they will still last forever. :D
 

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Oh, the PBW is actually a lot higher... those are just warranteed marketing numbers...