SK Hynix PE3110 960GB M.2 SSD

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BlueLineSwinger

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Hmmm...

Anyone know how well these might perform as the datastore for VM guests? Considering putting a mirrored pair into FreeNAS, and then mounting it via iSCSI to 2-3 Proxmox nodes. Though 1 TB is probably far more than I'd need.
 

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I think the price is "good" for 1TB SSD but it's not exactly a high performing drive by any stretch of the imagination.

And, sadly, at this time it's hard to add more than a couple without spending a boat load :(

Cheap, 24-48 bay chassis... now that'd be awesome, and their lower performing level wouldn't really matter in larger arrays.

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@BlueLineSwinger if you can swing it, and have the setup I'd go with 4x SAS3 800GB HGST drives, much much higher performing.
 
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@Patrick totally missed it's 100mm good call on that!

I'd bite if it was $250 TBH, for that capacity on my desktop :D :D
 
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BlueLineSwinger

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@BlueLineSwinger if you can swing it, and have the setup I'd go with 4x SAS3 800GB HGST drives, much much higher performing.
Good to know, but I don't think that'd work out for me without some juggling and a new HBA. My X10SL7's on-board HBA is limited to SAS2, and it's full anyways (along with most of the SATA). Meanwhile, all the PCIe slots sit there twiddling their thumbs.
 

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I'm looking to buy 1TB SSD for my virtual machines in VMWare workstation. I was looking at Plextor M8PE 1TB HHHL (MLC, 768TB endurance, PCIe 4x adapter with heatsink), but this also looks tempting for almost $100 less. Any advice on Plextor 1TB M8PE vs this SK Hynix PE3110 960GB?
 

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I personally have 2 of these I have been playing with in my proxmox host. I have had a heck of a time getting consistent performance out of them. I going to try them in a SM system this weekend to see if its maybe my Dell that is the issue. I've tried direct pass-through, zpool mirror and ext3 mirrors.

One thing, I would HIGHLY suggest getting some type of heatsink on them. They run pretty warm once under load and as the temps rise the performance drops hard. Between the length @ 110mm and being a double sided m.2 drive, chips on both sides of the drive I've only found one adapter with a heatsink that would fit them, but at $70+ each I wasn't willing to try. I have some generic heatsinks on the way I'm planning to use myself.
 

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Sadly I haven't. My order for heat sinks hasn't arrived yet and I've just been swamped with work. Hoping to be able to do a bit more testing this weekend without the heat sinks.

Also I think I am going to try vmware, see if things are any different. I really like the idea of zfs on m2 drives, snap shot ability is something I've gotten quite used to.

@Savant, ever get a chance to perform any testing?
 

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If that price drop holds I'll be picking up at least 2 more as spare and trying a larger ZFS pool.
 

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Are these (the PE3110) suitable for use as a SLOG? I realize it is waaay more space than is usually needed, but it has PLP and a 1.3 DWPD. While the write speed isn't the best, it seems hard to beat at that price point. I bought one that should be here tomorrow, and am debating whether or not to buy a few more to use as a pool instead of just a SLOG.
 

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Are these (the PE3110) suitable for use as a SLOG? I realize it is waaay more space than is usually needed, but it has PLP and a 1.3 DWPD. While the write speed isn't the best, it seems hard to beat at that price point. I bought one that should be here tomorrow, and am debating whether or not to buy a few more to use as a pool instead of just a SLOG.
how are you mounting the drives, if i may ask?
 

nkw

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how are you mounting the drives, if i may ask?
It occurs to me you may have been asking about the physical drive mounting rather than the interface. If I end up making a pool I don't think an adapter + the 110mm can physically fit in a normal 2.5" bay drive sled, so I'm not sure outside of mounting on a card or some sort of Franken-drive sled.