Very very very BIG ssd - Samsung PM1643 30TB ~ $5.4k

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Samsung PM1643 30TB SAS 12Gb/s 2.5-Inch Enterprise SSD MZILT30THMLA MZ-ILT30T0 | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Samsung PM1643 30TB SAS 12Gb/s 2.5-Inch Enterprise SSD MZILT30THMLA MZ-ILT30T0 at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products!
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It's not small, it's big, very big, for those who need very big solid state drives.
Seller has 5 for sale right now.

Lets see if there are any STH'ers who always go very big :D

I'm not sure if this is a great deal, but for being 30TB it's surely nice to start seeing these appear on ebay, probably with a multiple buy one could get a fairly decent discount.
 
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Density tends to always cost more until the next 'double-up' comes along that is.
Those who need double the capacity in the same 2U server is where the 30TB drives come in AFAICT.

Personally I'm waiting for 30TB NVMEs to come knocking :D

O/T - I wonder whatever happened to those 'DNA' living drives some research lab was working on a few years back with crazy petabyte capacity estimations.
 
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Not the best pricing, I picked up quite a few 15TB drives for $1300 each a few months back. This is quite a bit higher per GB
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That's fantastic. How they working out for you? Might try to keep a lookout for that.
 
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Nice find! Been looking for higher capacity SSDs for a while now. Finally managed to get hold of 4 x 7.68TB Micron 5100 Eco drives yesterday for $400 each. But wow - 30TB @ SAS speeds ;-)

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Not the best pricing, I picked up quite a few 15TB drives for $1300 each a few months back. This is quite a bit higher per GB
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If you don’t mind sharing - would you be willing to drop a PM as to where you get these?
 
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another dealer has a 15tb model at $2500, samsung sas ssd. not as low as $1300. I am on ipad, cannot copy the link from the ebay app. they are huge storage.
 
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hmw said:
Nice find! Been looking for higher capacity SSDs for a while now. Finally managed to get hold of 4 x 7.68TB Micron 5100 Eco drives yesterday for $400 each.
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Wow that's insanely good. The current offers are basically $400 for 3.8TB. So only a little over half the value. :(

Would love to buy 10 of these at that price. It'd make for a killer compact flash array. Guessing 10x 7.68tb SATA 6 drives will perform better or close to 5 x15GB SAS12 drives, yet be much more cost effective.
 
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xeonguy said:
Guessing 10x 7.68tb SATA 6 drives will perform better or close to 5 x15GB SAS12 drives, yet be much more cost effective.
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Cautionary tale: I got a 5100 ECO with D0MU814 firmware - foolishly upgraded to D0MU841. My 4K R/W speeds went from 117/298 MB/sec to 25/75 MB/sec. If you get these Micron's - do not upgrade firmware :-( I have been scouring the internets for D0MU814 firmware - could only find D0MU817 - and it still gives the same crappy 4K speeds
 
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Cautionary tale: I got a 5100 ECO with D0MU814 firmware - foolishly upgraded to D0MU841. My 4K R/W speeds went from 117/298 MB/sec to 25/75 MB/sec. If you get these Micron's - do not upgrade firmware :-( I have been scouring the internets for D0MU814 firmware - could only find D0MU817 - and it still gives the same crappy 4K speeds
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This has been noted with quite a few different manufacturer SSDs, OEM branded ones are the worst when it comes to this for those who use the drives outside of vendor's own machines. If only we had some firmware reverse-engineering analysts, though nowadays this may not be an easy feat considering much of the firmwares are now being signed and heavily encrypted, they claim it's to do with security, lmao.

We need a sticky in the drives sub-forum with these kind of 'findings'.
 
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hmw said:
Nice find! Been looking for higher capacity SSDs for a while now. Finally managed to get hold of 4 x 7.68TB Micron 5100 Eco drives yesterday for $400 each. But wow - 30TB @ SAS speeds ;-)



If you don’t mind sharing - would you be willing to drop a PM as to where you get these?
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Bought them from a user quite a few months ago, sadly it seems pricing has gone up on them since then. I was hoping to pick up a few more. :(
The Sas12 speeds are quite amazing.
 
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Unreal to have this much in a 3.5" sata package moreless 2.5" and sas--just beautiful. :)
 
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With a write speed of 1 GByte/s you will need a little bit over 8.5 hours to fill that ssd up :D
 
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With a write speed of 1 GByte/s you will need a little bit over 8.5 hours to fill that ssd up :D
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I moved my 5 x 4TB Seagate NAS HDD array to a 3 x 7.68TB SSD one - the HDDs did 130 mb/sec copying. The Microns never went above 35c and the HDDs were doing 45c - 48c at times, even with cooling. Took 18-24 hours to copy everything over, but thanks to FastCopy/RoboCopy - was able to get everything over. Now the SSDs do 28c at idle and 33c during heavy intense activity. And I use DrivePool but I get 500 mb/sec during copying things over. Enough to saturate a 2.5GbE network connection and certainly enough to keep a 10GbE connection happy :)
 
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Pushing this currently on one of our servers with a pair of the 15TB sas3 12Gbps drives in raid 1
5 minutes input rate 9.42 Gbps (95.5% with framing overhead), 788033 packets/sec

WA maxes out a 0.5 on the system, then again it's mostly just read being used on this now which is around 430 M/s

Either way happy to see them running good under a 10Gbps load on the network.
 
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hmw said:
Cautionary tale: I got a 5100 ECO with D0MU814 firmware - foolishly upgraded to D0MU841. My 4K R/W speeds went from 117/298 MB/sec to 25/75 MB/sec. If you get these Micron's - do not upgrade firmware :-( I have been scouring the internets for D0MU814 firmware - could only find D0MU817 - and it still gives the same crappy 4K speeds
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Yikes. Thanks for the headsup. Had no idea. So I'm guessing it's not possible to downgrade then back to the older firmware?
 
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