SSD Recomendations - 24 Bay DIY Storage

[VMman]

Hi Guys,

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

I'm trying to build out a storage server using a Supermicro 2U 24 Bay Chassis (SAS3 12Gbps Backplane) connected to 3 x HBA cards ( AOC-S3008L-L8e ) to provide iSCSI storage to either proxmox or hyper-v over 10Gbps ethernet.

I would like to know what is the current best bang for buck approach for solid state drives to enable such a build?

I understand drives like the Intel 3500/3600 will work I'm just concerned about the age of the hardware and wear levels especially purchasing vendor branded versions with bespoke SMART data?

Thanks in advance.

 

[mbosma]

I opted to get S4510 ssd's instead of the s3500 for the same reason.
The s4510's also feel a bit faster than the s3500's in my opinion.

 

[i386]

hgst husmm 400GByte if you need performance

 

[mmo]

+1 on hgst husmm as well, also you have sas3 12gbps and intel 3500/3600 only 6gbps, you might want to look for 12gbps drives if you want to fully utilize the bandwidth.

 

[RTM]

You might want to think about (and tell us), how much storage you expect to need and how you expect to use it (read intensive/mixed/write intensive workloads)

 

[VMman]

You might want to think about (and tell us), how much storage you expect to need and how you expect to use it (read intensive/mixed/write intensive workloads)

Thanks for all the replies, the storage will be used to host VM's with mixed workloads some running DB's, some webservers, other static content and general use.

Is the consensus that using SAS12G will allow for more peak speeds across the 24 vs using SATA6 SSD disks?

I briefly looked the HGST HUSMM units as others have recommended. Seems to be around $170/ea for the 800G with 2015/2016 manufacture dates. How do they compare to PM1633 from Samsung?

 

[mbosma]

Ditto on the HGST drives, they're amazing!
I had a cluster running about 20 VDI machines with easily 10-20+ users each on just 8 of these drives and it was still snappy.
If money is not an issue I'd certainly go for those instead of the Intel sata drives.