Wonder if that's why he didn't answer me when I asked how many PBW were left on these cards? I'm sorry for you guys, but glad I didn't pull the trigger on this one!I got a dud as well.
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Wonder if that's why he didn't answer me when I asked how many PBW were left on these cards? I'm sorry for you guys, but glad I didn't pull the trigger on this one!I got a dud as well.
Guess I dodged a bullet.
[root@nfskvm ~]# fio-status -a |grep written
Physical bytes written: 26,125,592,499,616
Physical bytes written: 6,335,470,649,880
You can bump the PCIe Power limit threshold to 75 to improve performance (seems to be for smaller files)
Driver should auto-detect the supported slot power configuration, but that's usually in server boards. In the cases that it doesn't the card limits it 25W for writes, which will hamper performance, especially for large files where the block sizes and throughput will be larger.Yeah, I thought I got an okay deal with a 69.something% when this thread was new.
Just checked, and it's 69.35% (also being used as a game drive)
You can bump the PCIe Power limit threshold to 75 to improve performance (seems to be for smaller files)
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/...isk-fusion-io-iodrive2-to-improve-performance
That is a LOT of writing you guys are seeing on those drives!!!
I've used my 3.2TB one, since this thread began in 2020 as my Steam, GOG, Epic, and Orgin games drive.
I'm down to a whopping 99.38% life left which is barely below where mine was when I bought it! (99.77% was what my original life was) Which is less than 1/2 of 1% life exhausted in nearly 3 years.
Sorry to hear you got some worn out duds!
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These aren't the greatest deals they were back when the thread started and SSDs of this capacity were much more expensive, which was when I got mine. That said, some of us weirdos are big on reliable storage with a (very) long term endurance potential and the consistent performance offered by MLC and enterprise-grade hardware. Mine does just fine as a game drive and my video/photo editing scratch drive. The speeds aren't stellar by any means, but they aren't a hindrance, either. What I really like in my SSDs is that I buy knowing I'll be able to use them in a rig with a long use life and then move it to the next one without worry.Thought about pulling the trigger, but then after reading your usage perhaps the endurance is excessive for average users like me.
100 TBW after 2+ years of heavy usage,
That means a decent$80 Teamsgroup 2 TB sata ssd with 1.6PB endurance will get me 16 years of heavy usage....
So still an awesome drive, but probably not ideal for low power users like me. My windows boot drive after 2 years has a whopping 2 TB written! That 512 GB 970 evo will last long after I don't need it anymore.
It's designed to be installed in a rack. For best performance, make sure it's set to 75W power (it doesn't go anywhere close to that) and the controller has good airflow over it.Ehh.. this thing throttles quickly, guessing temperature. copying movie files from my Samsung 970 or inland m2, write speed gets cut to 10% almost.
Wow - so I think I got real lucky in this lottery. My estimated life remaining is 99.77%
I've got a couple things to figure out. Apparently on my x99 Gigabyte Gaming Ultra board the bottom PCI-E slot is only giving me 4 PCIE- lanes? (maybe my Samsung 960 Evo nvme is taking the other four?) I can't use the third PCI-E slot up because it shares lanes with my first slot where my Nvidia 2080 is - which knocks my 2080 GPU down to 8 lanes. So I guess that leaves slot 2 - which is lame because that is going to share some heat from the graphics card being that it's the closest slot under the 2080.
Also my PCI-E slot is only doing 25 watts? What? I didn't even know you had to specify that it would offer up to 75 watts. I thought that was all automatic. News to me! Hmmm, do I want to trade performance for heat (on both GPU and IOScale) with the move to PCI-E slot 2? More testing is in order. My idle temp is 65*.
Looks like I have the newest firmware on mine with Firmware v7.1.17, rev 116786 Public according to the SanDisk release notes.
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First round of benchmarks in current position with 4 lanes of PCI-E and 25 watts.
The I/O scale card went to 74* C in this benchmarking session. (open air Thermaltake P3 case - no fans)
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sold to SamirD99.77% life remaining in 2020 at purchase to 99.33% life remaining right now in 2024.
I finally have enough NVME SSDs that I'm ready to take this out of my system and sell it. I'm taking it out today.
Anyone interested? PM me if you'd like to buy it. Someone want a second one to RAID them?
Current fio-status -a
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No problems at all on my rig. Just followed the install instructions earlier in this thread and everything went smoothly. The Win 7 drivers work just fine.has anyone had any luck getting these to work properly on windows 10, i tried but always had issues
No problem with mine with Windows 11 or 10. Use the Dell drivers.has anyone had any luck getting these to work properly on windows 10, i tried but always had issues
You can't boot from them (if that's what you meant).has anyone had any luck getting these to work properly on windows 10, i tried but always had issues
I used the Dell Driver for the 3.2TB one I just sold to SamirD. It worked great.i cant remember the exact issues i was having, but the command prompt deal said something like incorrect drivers or something like that installed, and i know it ran way slower than when i had it in windows 7, i was not trying to boot to it either.
anyone have a link to drivers as i tried searching this thread awhile ago and got a few dead links, i know i tried a bunch of drivers/tools but could never find the right combo it seemed, so i yanked the card out for now, it has been a few months since i tried though.
Can vouch for Windows 11. That's all I've tried from your list.Do the 6.4 tb and 3.2 tb fusion io drives work in Proxmox, Server 2022 or Windows 11? I know there are no drivers for esxi 8.0.
Should work on 2022 (worked on server 2019 at least). Proxmox you can do, but you’ll have to compile drivers yourself (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/c...oscale-and-ioscale2-cards-with-proxmox.54832/). Supposedly works on TrueNAS as well (haven’t tried that personally though) via compiling your own driver. ESXi support ended after 6.7u3 when VMware killed off compatibility for all the older drivers.Do the 6.4 tb and 3.2 tb fusion io drives work in Proxmox, Server 2022 or Windows 11? I know there are no drivers for esxi 8.0.