Should I cancel my order for Intel 750 solid-state drive as a slog?

[ujjain]

I saw 2x a Intel 750 solid-state drive at Amazon.de

Url: https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0153P9SEK

I've purchased them both 2nd hand for €190 each and I'm planning to send one back. I've previously ordered 2x an IronWolf Pro, 3x Samsung Pro SSD's, but unfortunately received an IronWolf SkyHawk, 1 IronWolf Pro (just arrived), an old Samsung Pro (286 days power-on-hours), a new Samsung Pro (3 hours-on on smart) and a Samsung Evo, so didn't want to risk receiving a completely different. Also had some great Amazon Warehouse deals experiences, so I figure'd I'll give it a shot.

Is this drive a good option for usage as a slog or should I still cancel my order now that they haven't been shipped yet?

 

[Stux]

The only real issue with it is possibly poor endurance.

https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...alling-insanely-fast-on-rmad-drive-too.11531/

You might be able to significantly increase the endurance through proper overprovisioning, and if you're lucky, the ISDCT might work...

 

[ujjain]

Total Bytes Written (TBW): 125TB

Ohh, this looks like a consumer drive. I might as well use the Samsung Evo 960 I already have.
I also have 2x WD BLACK NVMe 256GB that could be placed in Raid.

But my only reason to spend on an Intel SLOG SSD was to have both the benefits of a fast SLOG (high performance writes) and reliability.

What confuses me is that people recommend drives like the with Intel S3500 Series 80GB SSD 100MB/sec write speed.
I thought that ALL data would be first written to the SLOG and then to the pool/raid array? Doesn't that cap your limit at 100MB/sec?

 

[Stux]

All sync write data, and yes it does. If you don't have a sync write work-load, then you don't really need a slog, as async writes are batched direct to the pool.

I use a P3700. This is most likely overkill, but it does do the job extremely well :)

 

[Ericloewe]

Ohh, this looks like a consumer drive. I might as well use the Samsung Evo 960 I already have.
I also have 2x WD BLACK NVMe 256GB that could be placed in Raid.

Neither option has power loss protection, so they're not good options.

 

[ujjain]

Thanks, I've already received them, but I'll send them back without opening the box.