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Dell 400GB Solid State Drive Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) $3,256 + Shipping

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High end SSD SAS drive

Dell 400 GB Solid State Drive Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Write Intensive 12Gbps 2.5 inch Drive - SC420

Increase the storage capacity of your Dell™ System with 400 GB Solid State Drive from Dell. It boasts a storage capacity of up to 400 GB, enabling users to store large amounts of data. This drive delivers enhanced data transfer speed of up to 12 Gbps .

—> Offers up to 400 GB storage capacity
—> Equipped with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface which delivers high data transfer rate
—> Solid State design offers ruggedness and fast data access

Benefits of SSD over spin drives:
—> More Durable: Feature a non-mechanical design of NAND flash mounted on circuit boards, and are more shock resistant.
—> Faster: Faster data access, boot ups, file transfers, and an overall quicker computing experience than hard drives.
—> Quieter: Run at near silent operation unlike loud, whirring hard disc drives.
—> Lighter: Flash-based SSDs weigh considerably less.
—> Cooler: SSDs require little power to operate, resulting in less heat output by your system.
—> More Efficient: Consume less power at peak load.

Type Solid state drive - internal
Capacity 400 GB
Form Factor 2.5"
Interface SAS 12Gb/s
Data Transfer Rate 1.2 GBps
Features Write-Intensive Endurance

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  • +21

    Cant even throw in shipping on a $3,256 ssd lol.

    • Thing is, you HAVE to by 2 for a RAID 1.
      Imagine it dying and losing 400GB! <ouch>

      • Wouldn't risk RAID 1 without at least a hot spare for an enterprise system (at minimum RAID5 would be preferable).

        Therefore you need at least 3 lol.

      • you HAVE to by 2 for a RAID 1.

        Couldn't you use a magnetic HDD for mirroring?
        As long as you can accept some slow-down if the SSD fails.

    • HPE 400GB 12G SAS MU SFF 2.5 SC DS SSD Gen10 (872374-B21 / 872505-001) is available for $1098. That is why I Neg it.

  • +6

    erm wut

  • +1

    is this a joke? lol

  • +2

    Careful. Most here won't even know the difference between SAS and SATA.

    • +14

      Nor do people know the difference between SAS and sass.

      • -1

        Umm.. The SAS in this context is the drive interface, not the statistical anactics software…

        • Haha statistics? Upvote for the Sass as css scripting!

    • +8

      SAS is better than navy seals

    • +1

      Most here won't even know the difference between SAS

      I used it studying stats at Uni…

      • +9

        Always saw you as a Bachelor of Arts & Philosophy kinda guy.

        • +1

          Bachelor of Arts

          lol…

        • @jv: Would explain the love of Jules Verne. Personally I think you should have been jd

        • +4

          @Clear:

          Oh deere !!!

        • Those are perfectly valid lifestyle choices.

    • Not sure most people need to know the difference unless you deal with Enterprise IT KIt. Still it doesn’t matter as NVMe is superior in every way to a SAS SSD.

      • +1

        Which I do ;) It's just the IT Experts of OzB worship silly things and brands like TP-Link :P But yes PCIe NVMe is typically what I use now.

        • +4

          IDE is where its at these days.

        • +1

          @F-22: IDE is for high end servers.. for gaming it's MFM or RLL all the way!

      • +1

        with enterprise ssd it’s not just the speed, it’s also the endurance as many use SLC which will take many more write cycles than tlc, even 3d tlc nand.

        savvy hosting providers would tier this with some other options.

        the time will come when the cost of other nand and labour to replace drives makes it cheaper to go for nand other than slc.

        i asked the dell rep about warranty and write cycles, he said if we can wear out the cells during warranty or maintenance period they will replace drives, it’s not how much data we’ve written.

        enterprise is a different market.

        • Correct! At a quick look I couldn't find the endurance of this, but doesn't matter. Typically fast, high endurance SLC drives will be great as a write (and possibly) read cache in front of other slower and less durable SSDs or maybe even hdds.

        • @incipient:

          Err, ssds already have perfectly fine write life.

          I bought 24 500gb SSD drives 5 years ago for our exchange cluster for less than a third of this 400gb drive. - and that was 5 years ago!! Sure, it wasn't 12gbps, but it outperformed the 300gb sas drives and not a single one died.

          After pulling them all from the now decommissioned array the worst off of the cheapest drives (940 Evo's) 2 had 2 reallocated sectors, the other 4 had 1 or none. Every single 940 pro had zero reallocated sectors.

          Every drive was in raid 1 or 5 with hotspares, other than the hotspares we had written over 45 TB to each drive.

          Again zero failures, only minor wear leveling on the TLC drives.

          The interface speed is the only reason to go these drives, and I'm not sure it's worth it. Just buy two more arrays for the capacity and raid1 the entire array for faster read speeds.

        • @MeateaW:
          Depends entirely how much you write. SLC can typically manage 100,000 PE cycles, whereas TLC is down to 5000 and I think Qlc is down to only 1000!

        • @incipient: and these drives do NOT fill me with confidence.

          They have 112GB of their storage capacity reserved for wear leveling (thus 400gb usable space for these drives not 512 like the nand chips would dictate)

          They are getting their high writes on these drives by being over conservative, not by being high quality.

          If you bought literally ten times as many drives you'd get similar performance and even better write counts.

          There is no value in a 400gb SSD for over 2000 dollars, it doesn't stack up in any way shape or form.

  • hmmm this or 100 128gb micro sd cards and save $256…. so tempting…

  • +1

    Old Gil is too old for troll posts.

  • +2

    But can it run Crysis?

    All jokes aside, I'd rather my evo 850 m2 at 5% of the price

    • +3

      But can it run Crysis?

      Billy Ray Crysis?

  • +11

    thanks OP bought 11

    • +1

      For your screen stand?

  • +12

    20 years from now, the equivalent amount of storage would be about $100 and a tenth the size. And we'd all look back at this post on our web enabled 4K UHD HDR Band 28 anti gravity toilet and laugh.

    • +8

      Why would you not want gravity in a toilet?…it's probably one of the only places where we should have it. It's a big problem in space!

      • +2

        Maybe his name is Howard Wolowitz

      • That shitty V.I. Poo stuff will fix that.

      • +1

        No, no… the toilet will float above the floor. Keeps the cat from getting into my pants.

        • +1

          Withholding dirty cat/pants joke.

        • +1

          @justtoreply: My cat used to do that when he was a little kitten. If my jeans fell on the floor, he'd go make himself comfortable in it. I love my cat.

    • +4

      lol 4k UHD and your laughing in 20yrs time?

      • +2

        4K will be considered extremely blurry in 20 years time. Just like fullHD is to many today. Wonder what the people who came up with the "full" word would be thinking.

        • full+er

        • +1

          with the ageing population everything will look blurry to most in 20 years time, but even now many old shows look bad on even 1080p screen, can’t wait to watch gillian’s island in the old folks home on 8k screen as it tries to upscale and i wait for the nightly fine dining experience,

        • @garage sale: is that the porno version of gilligan’s island?

      • How many 4K UHD movies you can get in 400GB?

      • Only because I'll be looking for a bargain. I'd probably get that for $10 or something. I wouldn't be able to afford 32K UUUHD toilet.

    • +1

      With regards to my toilet, I don't want anything to do with anti-gravity. I want diem to stay down. When I send something to toilet hell, I don't want it returning from the grave

    • Just need a time machine so I can use computers from the future.

  • Price error?

    • In which way?

      • In the US it costs $7.5K USD so this seems like quite a discount

        • I'm speechless

        • well, it is ozbargains here

  • y tho?

  • +9

    Thanks op, price matched at Hungry Jacks

    • +2

      Lol I work at Hungry Jack's. Would you like fries with that?

    • Pricebeat at officeworks or no deal.

    • Was phone ok?

  • Thanks, I bought two. I know you can get a regular drive a lot cheaper, but I keep my hard drives in another room from the mother board so I need a good SAS drive to run the connections that far. having a hard drive in a seperate room aligns your chi which saves you a lot more than 3k in the long run.

  • -4

    What's the regular price? I found a 400GB SAS SSD for 1/10 that price, so I call no deal:

    http://www.esaitech.com/sandisk-lb406sc-400gb-lightning-seri…

    • That was used instead of new if you read that link you provided.

  • The fact when you can replace your whole laptop rig and then some for cheaper than just the storage 😂

    • Another fact is that you can buy 1000 stainless steel rings for same price as one gold ring. Both do job.

  • Thanks Op, bought 3

  • This is not a bargain. Check this out: HPE 400GB 12G SAS MU SFF 2.5 SC DS SSD Gen10 (872374-B21 / 872505-001) for $1098

    https://www.seabourne.store/hpe-400gb-12g-sas-mu-sff-2.5-sc-…

    • +1

      I know this is all tongue in cheek, but you're not comparing Apples with Apples

      The Dell is a Write Intensive drive and the HPE one is a Mixed Use one

      The WI v MU drives have different DWPD rating.

  • I just bought 12 x 480GB hp ssd's for work and they were $600 each. They're were rebranded Intel 4500 drives so nothing special.

  • +2

    I think people don't realise that although this is just a 400gb ssd, the extra price on top is all about Dell support.

    Try calling Dell for help when the server has problems and you have a Samsung 870 Pro installed.

    They gouge you for support and sell the main server for relatively "cheap".

    • +1

      And probably find your warranty with Samsung is void. I've had a server come in filled with cheap Kingston SSDs and multiple in the RAID failed. Kingston rejected the warranty as the constant R/W showed it was used in their server and violated their terms.

      • -1

        Why get warranty when you can literally buy 10 drives for the price of one?

  • +8

    Thanks grabbed one for my PS3

    • Getting one for my second hand modded nintendo wii because reasons.

  • Is this good for the Dell optiplex desktop deals?

  • +1

    As usual the first few replies making fun of the deal, followed by replies with all the technical terms, and last few replies are question time.

  • Going to need 4 of these for my 4 bay NAS. Placing order now.

  • Ozbargain is rapidly becoming a waste of time.

    • +1

      But a fun way to waste time.

  • +1

    Got OzBargained price back up to $4,510 :)

  • thanks OP, bought 3

  • +1

    Thanks OP, used for my Raspberry PI

    • Lol

  • Dammit I just bought 2 yesterday

  • For some context on what you would use this for, I am buying 4 to 6 of these this year.
    I’m building a $200,000 server setup for a well known mid sided Australian company.
    I am using two of these dedicated to their SAP database which is the backbone of their business. Then I have the same in a backup server.
    Hundreds of thousands dollars in servers, same again in SAP and other associated databases, processing I don’t know, a million dollars worth or transactions a month for 5 years? For their price/required performance requirements this drive suits it very well…

    PS. This is spare parts which is always overpriced and looks odd. Dell will quite you per server based on the required specs, you don’t pay this but it’s an indication…

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