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Leslieann:
I don't expect case companies to do away with 2.5 drives any time soon, while NVME is great, expandability is low.
Besides, it's pretty easy to hide a mount for a pair of them in a case, you can even just put a set of mounting holes in the case bottom/front rear and call it a day.
But also, case companies are slooooooow to move (due to tooling costs), they're still selling cases designed 20 years ago with new face plates, and they HAAAATE removing options. Drive bays and such are feature or selling point. It's really only been since the Lian Li 011 that has really changed how cases look and work but even that has drive bays behind the mobo. Expect mobo makers to kill sata ports (and adding ore nvme) before cases really start dropping drive bays.
tp4tissue:
It's actually expensive now to get cases with good 3.5 drive support.
Wish they'd make a 22bay one.
Coreda:
Enterprise drives are where the highest capacities are at.
- 15TB used NVMe SSDs from data centers could be bought for $700 last year before prices rose (again).
- The Soldigm 61TB (NVMe) model was selling new for $3700 late last year before the price rises pushed it to $6400.
- Someone on Reddit was selling a 100TB Nimbus SSD (SATA only) with 70% wear for $3k.
They also have better endurance than consumer drives. Eg: the current Solidgm ~8TB (QLC, NVMe) model is twice the endurance of Samsung's QVO (QLC, SATA) equivalent. Their 61TB model endurance is 65PBW (petabytes written not terabytes).
_rubik:
--- Quote from: Coreda on Sat, 20 April 2024, 11:29:09 ---Enterprise drives are where the highest capacities are at.
- 15TB used NVMe SSDs from data centers could be bought for $700 last year before prices rose (again).
- The Soldigm 61TB (NVMe) model was selling new for $3700 late last year before the price rises pushed it to $6400.
- Someone on Reddit was selling a 100TB Nimbus SSD (SATA only) with 70% wear for $3k.
They also have better endurance than consumer drives. Eg: the current Solidgm ~8TB (QLC, NVMe) model is twice the endurance of Samsung's QVO (QLC, SATA) equivalent. Their 61TB model endurance is 65PBW (petabytes written not terabytes).
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I'm all for buying used enterprise hardware, but not drives. The wear stats on those drive are insane, spinning rust or solid state. It's like buying a bike off a pro-tour cyclist in training
Coreda:
--- Quote from: _rubik on Sat, 20 April 2024, 11:48:45 ---I'm all for buying used enterprise hardware, but not drives. The wear stats on those drive are insane, spinning rust or solid state. It's like buying a bike off a pro-tour cyclist in training
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They do have greater endurance though and if the use case is mostly write once read many then even a well-used drive that still has enough endurance left would suit. One can't even buy HDDs over 30-30TB while SSDs have already far surpassed that capacity.
Drives can die at any point, whether new or used. The only difference is the warranty. Various sellers of such used drives offer their own warranties, so up to the user if they're comfortable with that route. Eg: one can buy used 16TB helium HDDs for like a third the price, so you could buy three for a RAID and just replace if one happens to fail (or get a replacement if within the used seller warranty) vs a single one with a manufacturer warranty.
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