Lenovo\Samsung 1.92Tb P963 Nvme SAS Ssd with PCIe to U.2 adapter card

[johnny_h]

Item : Lenovo\Samsung 1.92Tb P963 Nvme SAS Ssd with SAS to U2 and U2 to m.2 converter
Age 3/4 months
Warranty : none
Condition : Excellent
Packaging : will box nicely
Reason : Cant use it
Shipping : Your cost and risk
Location : JHB, Fourways
Collection : Preferred
SSD Link: Lenovo PM963 NVMe Enterprise Value PCIe SSDs Product Guide > Lenovo Press
It's a rebranded Samsung drive, who's got more specs here: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/global.semi.static/Samsung_PM963-1.pdf
Adapter Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H41FVS3/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Price: R4500

So I got this drive off the forum a while back, but it doesn't play nicely with Gigabyte motherboards(or at least my Aorus X299). It's an enterprise drive, which is why I suspect it doesn't.
Been having @Rowen82 kindly tested it in his system and it's working without a hitch.
Note that these drives have 2000MB/s Read and 1200MB/s write, but also a fantastically long endurance.
It's 0.8 Device Writes Per Day ie 1.5tb / day for 5 years or 2,733 TBW (2 petabytes written).
For comparison, the 970 Evo 2TB model is 1,200 TBW.

I'd prefer to sell locally, so you can test it in your system to see if it works. If it does, it's one of the best SSDs you can get in terms of endurance


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[TheGoat]

Might be a dumb question 😄
What form factor is this drive? 2.5”?

 

[johnny_h]

Might be a dumb question 😄
What form factor is this drive? 2.5”?

It's not dumb at all!
It's a 2.5" form factor, but the connector is a U.2 Connector, almost like a SAS connector but PCIe based instead of SATA.
Because of that, I'm including a U.2 to PCIe adapter card, that the drive plugs into, and the adapter card plugs into a free PCIe x4 slot

 

[TheGoat]

Asus Hyper Kit M.2/nGff to U.2/Mini-SAS converter - Wootware

Would something like this work in an itx scenario. Besides this add in card what would be required, or is that it?

Also my mind was blown by the 2.5” Nvme 😄

 

[johnny_h]

Asus Hyper Kit M.2/nGff to U.2/Mini-SAS converter - Wootware

Would something like this work in an itx scenario. Besides this add in card what would be required, or is that it?

Also my mind was blown by the 2.5” Nvme 😄

Yep, that could work, but it depends on the board(it worked in the board of the person I got the drive from). I actually have 2 of them, but my Gigabyte refuses to play ball with the drive.
The M.2 and U.2 adapters are pretty much the same thing, just ways to attach the drive to the PCIe bus.
The problem is you'd also need a cable for that, a mini-SAS to U.2 cable to actually connect it

 

[johnny_h]

bump

 

[eagle2k]

I want to use this in my laptop. Will it fit with my nvme slot?

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[eagle2k]

Glws

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[johnny_h]

I want to use this in my laptop. Will it fit with my nvme slot?

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Unfortunately not, it's a 2.5" drive with SAS connector, it'll be difficult to get a laptop that it'll go in. It's meant for servers