Just curious if any fellow STH'ers got in on this?
Intel DC S3710 Enterprise 400GB 2.5" SSD SSDSC2BA400G4 3+ yr warranty | eBay
Intel DC S3710 Enterprise 400GB 2.5" SSD SSDSC2BA400G4 3+ yr warranty | eBay
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I don't know if it was the same seller, but I got 16 of these (blew my budged for the next couple of years 
) to create a purely SSD array for a (more or less) converged NAS/VM/DB box. Has worked out well so far. The exact numbers I don't recall the exact numbers but the power on time was not high and in all cases the writes were less than 1% capacity.
I mention it because even if it was not the same seller, back in July (I think) a flood of these came on the market and it looks like the price has been dropping slowly ever since. It is unlikely these drives are not from the same stock but I suspect leases are expiring more or less at the same time and businesses are looking to upgrade, perhaps to NVMe drives. Great value for us.
Hope this helps.
) to create a purely SSD array for a (more or less) converged NAS/VM/DB box. Has worked out well so far. The exact numbers I don't recall the exact numbers but the power on time was not high and in all cases the writes were less than 1% capacity. I mention it because even if it was not the same seller, back in July (I think) a flood of these came on the market and it looks like the price has been dropping slowly ever since. It is unlikely these drives are not from the same stock but I suspect leases are expiring more or less at the same time and businesses are looking to upgrade, perhaps to NVMe drives. Great value for us.
Hope this helps.
Funny you mention it...when these drive first became available I believe they (again, not sure of the seller and the time frame was around July) was asking close to $200 or BO. I, too, thought I would wait observing a number of sellers were selling the drives. The short story is after waiting a month or so the prices started coming down I managing to pick up my set for $155 each. Granted, more expensive than now :< but still at a substantial discount.
It depends on your time frame, as at the moment a NAND shortage is going on so it may be a few months before the price drops to your price range. In my view, because NVMe drives (at least new) are/have reaching/ed price parity, the drive prices will drop, but you just may be waiting for a few more months, perhaps through the first quarter of 2017.
Just my two cents.
It depends on your time frame, as at the moment a NAND shortage is going on so it may be a few months before the price drops to your price range. In my view, because NVMe drives (at least new) are/have reaching/ed price parity, the drive prices will drop, but you just may be waiting for a few more months, perhaps through the first quarter of 2017.
Just my two cents.
It's $10 cheaper at $132 here: Intel DC S3710 Enterprise 400GB 2.5" SSD SSDSC2BA400G4 3+ yr warranty | eBay
The power on hours vs writes for them appears unlikely.
It is possible the drive #2 was installed, powered on for 150 days and zero bytes written.
Would you be skeptical of the SMART info?
Below is the SMART for the drives. CrystalDiskInfo reports both drives 100% Good.
Drives ordered from l-d-sales / Tech Trade, from the ebay link above.
It is possible the drive #2 was installed, powered on for 150 days and zero bytes written.
Would you be skeptical of the SMART info?
Below is the SMART for the drives. CrystalDiskInfo reports both drives 100% Good.
Drives ordered from l-d-sales / Tech Trade, from the ebay link above.
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maybe drive2 was a hotspare in a RAID array that was never activated? that's the only scenario I can think of that would be likely...
just reporting back. the 4 SSDs i got had between 3000-4000 power-on-hours. 3 of the 4 had between 200-400GB written, and 800+ GB read - looks like it was mostly in read application. 1 of the 4 had 0 written/read - probably the hot spare.
seems like a nice deal for reputable enterprise SSD with little use.
oh, one thing I did notice is that the firmware isn't current. but I can't update the firmware over a USB 3.0-SATA cable so I'm going to have to install it in a server or something before I can update the firmware.
seems like a nice deal for reputable enterprise SSD with little use.
oh, one thing I did notice is that the firmware isn't current. but I can't update the firmware over a USB 3.0-SATA cable so I'm going to have to install it in a server or something before I can update the firmware.
Seller accepted 5 @ $120 each
Intel S3710 400GB SSD SSDSC2BA400G4 SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Warranty 2020
Might be able to go a bit lower.
Intel S3710 400GB SSD SSDSC2BA400G4 SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" Warranty 2020
Might be able to go a bit lower.