Dell R430 with PERC H730 support SSD? (Samsung 850 Pro)

Though, they will never reach the levels of consumer based drives - so make sure to set expectations - but I don't expect them to be more than a few times consumer, not 10X, etc.

MattSpeller

@BRRABill said:

This is becoming a common thread.

DELL: LOWER YOUR SSD PRICES.

Holy shit yes. I've moaned about it to every Dell rep. Means more work for me and no SSD sales for them. Lose / lose.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

Though, they will never reach the levels of consumer based drives - so make sure to set expectations - but I don't expect them to be more than a few times consumer, not 10X, etc.

This is very important. The lowest that Dell could ever get is to the regular cost of an enterprise SSD, plus the needed vendor markup plus the huge cost of their warranty service plans. So at a minimum, double that of the normal market. Often higher.

BRRABill

If they could approach the price of the EDGE SSDs that xByte sells, that would work.

Would that be possible?

Dashrender

@BRRABill said:

If they could approach the price of the EDGE SSDs that xByte sells, that would work.

Would that be possible?

Absolutely it's possible, and even likely as market pressure will drive them down as the competition does the same thing...

LAH3385

Can't wait for enterprise SSD price to goes down. I'm hopping SSD will one day replace HDD as USB replace CD/DVD as they replace floppy disks.

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

If they could approach the price of the EDGE SSDs that xByte sells, that would work.

Would that be possible?

No, because you are comparing apples to oranges. Dell only sells fully supported components that fall under the same support contract as the server itself.

You can never get the cost of that anywhere close to the cost of just a component.

The cost of that Dell support is huge. That's why everything from them has always costed more, because you are paying for the support. That's the reason you are talking to Dell in the first place. If you did not want that kind of support you'd be looking at things like SuperMicro.

Lyndsie_xByte

Hi @LAH3385,

I am sorry for not getting back to you sooner! I notice that I started to reply yesterday and didn't hit send. Technology is only as good as the use, right??

Please email me [email protected] and I will get you in touch with someone on our side that can address your questions and discuss some of our benchmark results.

BRRABill

@Lyndsie_xByte

I know your drives are compatible with the DELL servers (minus the yellow triangle in OMSA).

How did you guys confirm they will flash amber when failing?

MattSpeller

@BRRABill I believe they throw a SMART error at the controller, but you should double check that.

mprftw

@BRRABill The Edge drives are a great alternative and even Intel DC drives are very popular running on the premise that Intel being such a large company knows the cost of not having their drives work and so in a situation where Dell changed their firmware...Intel would be devoting a very sizable amount of their resources to making it work again! Let me know if you have any questions about either one.

BRRABill

@MattSpeller said:

@BRRABill I believe they throw a SMART error at the controller, but you should double check that.

That's why I asked the source.

mprftw

@BRRABill The error message will pop up saying "localhost: Fault detected on drive 0 in disk drive bay 1." and then a more detailed description. The amber light for Edge normally reads "non-Dell drive detected", that's all.

BRRABill

@mprftw said:

The amber light for Edge normally reads "non-Dell drive detected", that's all.

What do you mean?

I was under the impression OMSA said "non-DELL drive" but the lights were green on the drive itself, and only went amber if there was an issue.

That's why I was wondering how they tested it works on a failing drive.