VIRIDENT FLASHMAX II 4.8TB PCIe SSD $700 starting bid
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I bought it to see how different it is from its little brother. I don't have an intention to test it for more than a week or so. If you still think it's worth $800 a few weeks from now, I can unload it for what I paid ($800).
At the end, it won't be part of my setup up since my setup is VDI which uses all the slot for Quadro pass-thru.
As I said before, it little brother runs hot. I had to mount an extra fan near it to make me feel better during my 2 days of testing or so. It now sits in my part box.
At the end, it won't be part of my setup up since my setup is VDI which uses all the slot for Quadro pass-thru.
As I said before, it little brother runs hot. I had to mount an extra fan near it to make me feel better during my 2 days of testing or so. It now sits in my part box.
DittoHa, awesome to see that another member picked it up.
@nk215, let me know how that testing goes. I'd be interested at the $800 price point. I was trying to snipe as well on eBay
Good morning everyone.
I got the FlashMax II 4800 last night and spent a few hours testing it. Here's my impression:
The Good:
+ It runs significantly cooler than its' 1TB little brother. Under the same chassis (wedged between a Quadro 4000 and a Dell H310), it runs at 58C vs ~70C. Putting a fan directly on top of it blowing down, the temperature dropped to 47C.
+ It had 99.7% life left when I got it. So it's not brand new but close to it.
+ I set it up as ESXi data store, using "max storage" configuration. It worked at first try.
For a benchmark, I used CrytalDisk 5.2.0x64. Setup: Single 4TB VMFS (ESXi 5.5). Win7 guest setup with RAID0 of 4-1TB VM virtual drives on this partition. This is an example setup in the manual. I am not exactly sure why RAID0 of 4-1TB rather than 1 big 4TB virtual drive.
Results:
Mode: Seq Q32 / 4K Q32 / Seq / 4K
Read: 2456 / 255.8 / 951.8 / 24.47
Write: 951.7 / 214.1 / 810.2 / 47.88
+ Price: at $800, I don't think anything can get close to it in term of space and performance / price ratio.
The Bad:
+ It should work under PCI pass-thru to Win7 but for the life of me I can't get it to work property. Flash Manager detected it but kept on saying the partition is "Not-READY" and Status = "Critical". This is also the only way I know of to check for life left. Using disk monitor/performance monitor command line utility under ESXi shows everything work correctly. Status is GOOD under ESXi.
+ Can't find a way to see SMART data under ESXi. The only way to see how much life left was to PCI pass-thru to Win7 and use the FlashMax Manager.
+ It takes up a PCI3x8 slot for max performance. It may not matter to many setup but on mine, that slot belongs to a Quadro card
I got the FlashMax II 4800 last night and spent a few hours testing it. Here's my impression:
The Good:
+ It runs significantly cooler than its' 1TB little brother. Under the same chassis (wedged between a Quadro 4000 and a Dell H310), it runs at 58C vs ~70C. Putting a fan directly on top of it blowing down, the temperature dropped to 47C.
+ It had 99.7% life left when I got it. So it's not brand new but close to it.
+ I set it up as ESXi data store, using "max storage" configuration. It worked at first try.
For a benchmark, I used CrytalDisk 5.2.0x64. Setup: Single 4TB VMFS (ESXi 5.5). Win7 guest setup with RAID0 of 4-1TB VM virtual drives on this partition. This is an example setup in the manual. I am not exactly sure why RAID0 of 4-1TB rather than 1 big 4TB virtual drive.
Results:
Mode: Seq Q32 / 4K Q32 / Seq / 4K
Read: 2456 / 255.8 / 951.8 / 24.47
Write: 951.7 / 214.1 / 810.2 / 47.88
+ Price: at $800, I don't think anything can get close to it in term of space and performance / price ratio.
The Bad:
+ It should work under PCI pass-thru to Win7 but for the life of me I can't get it to work property. Flash Manager detected it but kept on saying the partition is "Not-READY" and Status = "Critical". This is also the only way I know of to check for life left. Using disk monitor/performance monitor command line utility under ESXi shows everything work correctly. Status is GOOD under ESXi.
+ Can't find a way to see SMART data under ESXi. The only way to see how much life left was to PCI pass-thru to Win7 and use the FlashMax Manager.
+ It takes up a PCI3x8 slot for max performance. It may not matter to many setup but on mine, that slot belongs to a Quadro card
