I would swoop in and clear stock if this was 2020. But Optane can not compete with the modern crop of SSDs on the price.
Still it is such a cool tech IMO. Pity I can't think of good use these days even for the database given the cost of normal SSDs and RAM is so low.
I might bite the bullet and get one or two for my SQL server just because and also at only $14.
What do you guys think?
I bought a 12TB from them a few months back and think the delivery was ok. They are Australian based so a couple of weeks can be expected
They are based in Hong Kong, not Australia
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These were $7.20 NZ shipped each from Ebay last time I bought some.
I think they sell them by the bucket.
what would be a good use for such low storage maybe use it for page file
Recovery tools drive, for that fam member that some how keeps breaking the pc
Though a proper techie would have a portable nvme drive with all the iso's and tools store don a 500GB drive
or as a cache write drive for torrents
Optane was originally intended to supplement spinners. There was a period when they started making hybrid drives - some flash inside HDD to cache frequently used data. So Intel came up with an idea to have this flash on the motherboard. I understand it worked really well but not worth the hassle with the modern SSDs.
Optane has superior durability and iops over flash SSD so great case for enterprise database. At the current price point I would get a 1TB+ for my production SQL if I was still in the game…
I was wondering if there was a use case for a home server such as installing 2x of them onto one of those PCI card that has 2x M.2 slots giving you redundant storage for the OS or something.
But hardly seems worth it as for for around $20 each you can get a 128GB model from PB Tech
So for 1.5x the price you you'd get 8x the storage. And its redundant so even though the drives aren't as good, they are easy to swap out as required and have an actually usable capacity.
Do you have a link, no 128gb Optane drive showing on pbtech for me.
@muddyfoxnz: Oh sorry I meant a 128GB M.2 SSD from PB.
I don’t believe intel went above 64GB for optane
@Tmurder91: A word of warning. Those PCI cards with multiple (I have one with 4) m2 slots require a mobo feature called PCIe bifurcation. None of PCs in my possession seem to have that. So only one slot actually works.
@Nzruzzki: Oh the cheap PB ones are the style that support one output over SATA so you don’t need bifurcation but taking up a SATA port or mixing the different drives comes with other challenges in hardware choice
@Tmurder91: Also. You can get 1.5TB Optane from them on special if it tickles your fancy.
https://east-digital.myshopify.com/products/intel-ssdpe21k01…
@Nzruzzki: That does tickle my fancy. They are interesting drives, but U.2 connector and rather expensive lol
Might be a good drive for proxmox/opnsense build?
I use these as boot drives for my NAS and proxmox server.
East Digital were selling repackaged DEAD Seagate EXOS drives from a Chinese 'Chia' crypto farm. (Sold as 'brand-new').
Took over 2 months of persistence to obtain my refund.
Buyer beware.
Thanks for this feedback. I did buy from them before for my security system. And am thinking to get another couple for backups. Noticed they have lots of exos's.
May go with WDs instead…
They were not selling dead drives. They however were selling heavily used drives with power on hours wiped. I got a refund from them, only took a week after I had shipped it back to Australia.
Mine was DOA. Thus, they sold dead drives.
I can buy a brand new drive from PB Tech, and it could arrive DOA. Does that mean PB Tech sell dead drives? If yes, that applies to every retailer.
@kfr23: It's fraud. PB aren't selling dead drives sealed up and marketed as brand-new. What a weak argument.
@PiRACY: But the "dead" part was much more likely unrelated to the Chia usage. It was just like PB Tech, the drive was working fine when it was last tested in the supply chain but broke sometime between then and when it made it to you. Possibly even on the last leg which ends to be the most brutal. It was probably slightly more likely to die on the way due to the previous usage but frankly the big concern with the fraud is not because of a higher DoA rate but because of future problems happening far sooner.
You can get them for under US$4+GST from AliExpress. Both 2280 and 2242 sizes are available (for 16GB), with choice US$10 free shipping, so just need to buy 3x or something else and you free shipping. Been that price for about a year. So not sure why'd you'd want to buy it at that price.
One unfortunate thing is most of the small NVMe to USB adapters on AliExpress seem to be 2230 so can't so easily make a small super fast USB drive
I am still waiting my order from 28th Apr :(