These 2 SSD Enterprise Boot Drives?

[F1ydave]

I was searching for a host drive for a new esxi server and came across this SSD...this will only host napp-it or unraid.

1 8" Micro SATA 64G SSD Micron Realssd P400E Enterprise Solid State Drives | eBay

Anyone have any experience with these?

Otherwise I may just go with

Samsung 843T 120GB 2 5" 120GB SATA 6 0Gb s Enterprise Solid State Drive | eBay

 

[Patrick]

You are probably OK with either. Of those two I would probably go with the Samsung just so you do not need to get a 1.8" to 2.5" adapter. Better drives. If you wanted a few Intel options.

Intel 710 Series SSDSA2BZ100G3 2 5" SATA II MLC Solid State Drive SSD 100GB 735858220781 | eBay

If you wait a week or two sub $90 should not be an issue. Edit Here is one for $81 but sometimes can get below $60

or if you want small and slow and cheaper:

Intel SSD 320 Series 40GB SATA 3GB s 2 5'' Solid State Drive SSDSA2BT040G3 | eBay

All of the Intel 320's I have (and about a dozen just of the 40GB ones) have never had a single issue. 40GB is super slow but the 80GB ones are $10-15 more (e.g. this one) but cheaper than the S3500 80GB.

Still, that Samsung is a good drive. I think it had like 2TBW endurance so should be fine.

 

[Patrick]

Edit: Here is a super interesting drive. Samsung SLC for $89! Samsung 100GB Solid State Drive SSD Enterprise SATA Hard Drive MZ5S7100XMCO | eBay I think it is SATA II though.

 

[andrewbedia]

If you wanted a few Intel options.

Intel 710 Series SSDSA2BZ100G3 2 5" SATA II MLC Solid State Drive SSD 100GB 735858220781 | eBay

If you wait a week or two sub $90 should not be an issue. Edit Here is one for $81 but sometimes can get below $60

I snagged one for $50!

 

[Patrick]

I snagged one for $50!

Nice. The best I have ever gotten is $40 on a BIN but that was extreme luck. Not the fastest drives but very solid boot devices that you can write logs to and not worry about them using cheap NAND.

 

[Jeggs101]

I'm addicted to the Intel SATA2 drives. I've got four 48 bay servers with the Intel 710's that have been running for over 2 years. Not a single failure.

 

[Marsh]

@Jeggs101
How do you use 4 x 48 Intel 710 SSD?

 

[Jeggs101]

@Jeggs101
How do you use 4 x 48 Intel 710 SSD?

Your question is better asked "why are you still using 4x 48 Intel 710 200GB SSD's?" Especially since performance/ capacity wise we could consolidate to a single chassis now. But hey, they work.

We use them as iSCSI network storage for a customer doing Citrix VDI. At the time, it was way cheaper than buying EMC.

Building it today the architecture is stupid. We have redundancy for drives to fail but they have not so they're just a waste of space.

 

[F1ydave]

Edit: Here is a super interesting drive. Samsung SLC for $89! Samsung 100GB Solid State Drive SSD Enterprise SATA Hard Drive MZ5S7100XMCO | eBay I think it is SATA II though.

I was just looking at this one before I logged in. Found it from that 100gb ebay search you had linked on that article from last week.

I picked up a 710 a few weeks ago from my production server, I still have yet to move everything over to it from the 4tb red that is currently hosting. I should have some time this week.

I made an offer for $50 on another 710...probably wont take it, but worth a try.

 

[F1ydave]

Just accepted my offer of $50 for the 710!

 

[Patrick]

Just accepted my offer of $50 for the 710!

Nice price!

I am actually using 2x of them in the new storage test bed. 36 bays so plenty of room for two slow/ reliable SATA drives.

 

[F1ydave]

I got greedy and picked up his last one for $50 too, so 2 in the mail for $100! better price than the $70 I paid a few weeks ago!