The SSD was shipped overnight on 1/13/21 and received on 1/14/21 without incident. Standard packaging included an oversized box, ample amounts of foam, and an anti-static bag.
Overnight shipping is not standard and adds an additional fee.
Standard shipping is free.
Brand new, 2 power on count (presumably one was from initial testing). 0GB read/written. Notice TRIM is enabled, whereas it is not enabled on my 6.4TB Intel SSD with Oracle firmware.
The Intel DC P4500 U.2 2TB is a fantastic NVMe SSD for just about any purpose. It has above average endurance compared to consumer SSDs, an included heatsink, and great performance. Unfortunately, its U.2 form factor can make it a little challenging to use in some cases, and there is a bit of additional cost if you need an adaptor. If you can stomach those small issues, I would recommend the DC P4500 over any consumer 2TB NVMe on the market. 2TB of extremely reliable and fast NVMe storage for significantly less than $200 is a great price point.
Thanks for the review,newer ssds have higher peak performance figures, but that would probably only be useful in really extreme scenarios. The biggest disadvantage of this one seems to be the need for the extra adapter for anyone who isn’t already running an Enterprise server.
@easyrhino There are plenty of enterprise SSDs that surpass consumer speeds as well, though this isn’t one of them (at least in write speed). However, they are much more expensive, and it’s rare to see them come down in price like this - although it has happened.
I bought one of these and installed it in my UNAS Build as cache. I also purchased the Amphenol U.2 to m.2 adapter. It was a tight fit but it managed to work. Amphenol adapter doesn’t quite fit when tray is tightened down so I had to leave some slack. Cable is also quite long for this build.
I’ve added pics of the comparative benchmarks between the 970 in there with the U.2 Drive.
Mine just arrived and I am not having any luck getting it to be seen by ESXI. These drives are on the HCL so I’m a little puzzled. Mine is in the DLINKER PCIe x4 adapter.
First, the drives firmware. I can’t find it anywhere on the Intel, HPE or VMware sites - the version on the drive I received according to Intels tools is QDV1FP20.
Unfortunately I don’t see the drive listed under ESXI. I’ve tried numerous different things including ESXI 6.5, 6.7.0, 6.7u3, 7.0b and various different fixes on blog posts too 123 and honestly a lot more besides - including a bunch of esxcli vib installation stuff.
The drives is seen by ESXI in so much that I can pass it through to a guest just fine but I can’t use it as a datastore - which was the reason for purchase.
I had a problem simliar to yours with vSAN (vSphere/vCenter 7.01) where I couldn’t claim a new drive to use as a capacity. The problem was that there was some leftover partition scheme on the drive, after I cleaned and deleted everything on the drive I was able to claim it for vSAN.
Not sure if this problem relates to yours, just thought i’d chime in
