Yeah I saw this, thanks wasn’t sure about these Kingston drives. Do you have a sense of idle power of one in your set up? Also what was the offer amount that was accepted?
That's too bad. I'm trying to keep idle power down if at all possible. In fact I'm consider m.2 22110 drives that typically idle lower, but all the adapters etc. I'd have to use just make it a bit of a mess.
Yeah, I'm going to probably end up having my power usage be the same or slightly higher that my existing rust array, which is not what I was hoping to get from going all-flash. The WD SN640s should idle lower, at least based on their datasheet. Maybe my next upgrade will get me drives with lower idle--I just couldn't resist the combo of performance and cost per GB on brand-new drives.
they are listed as “new”and bottom of listing says 5 year warranty. Can you check warranty status on yours and let us know?
Heh. Would love to but I can't find any place that you can enter a serial number and find out. So I guess I'm rolling the dice in that regard. Like I said, they appeared to be BNIB when I received them and they perform exactly as expected.
Kingston NVMe drives are equally good. I have not had any issues with them when we used them in servers and such.
Any chance you could be convinced to actually call and check one of the SNs see if you have warranty support by ~gasp~ talking to a human? I know it’d be a lot of time but would sure help some of us out, plus then you’d know!
So I called (for science!) and it's good news/bad news I guess? Good news is they stated that as long as the product was purchased new the warranty is for 5 years from the date of purchase--the serial number is irrelevant to the warranty period. Ebay sales are also purportedly ok, again, so long as the product was new and not used. The less-good news is that when you make a warranty claim you need to provide your proof of purchase and who knows how they're going to react to an ebay sale from "horrorgrl666". I'm going to keep my original packaging just in case I need to make a claim though. Based on my reading of the warranty I should be fine--I am the "original end user customer", and the drives were not "sold as second-hand" or "resold contrary to U.S.A. and other applicable export regulations."
What do you mean? Horrorgrl666 is a well-known reseller of enterprise grade hardware...
Oooh. You're right I missed that. Pretty sure that's unenforceable though, especially given that the sealed packages I received explicitly state that there's a 5 year warranty:What do you mean? Horrorgrl666 is a well-known reseller of enterprise grade hardware...
Warranty does say "To the extent permitted by applicable laws, products not imported or sold through authorized Kingston dealers or distributors are not covered by this warranty, and Kingston may elect to repair or replace your product for a fee." So maybe warranty is not valid? Either way I doubt you'll encounter an issue.
