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just got 2x4tb half an hour ago in gra too. didn't check the other specs yet.
Any lottery/ upgrades in BHS?
Now they run out of stock in GRA for 2x2TB storage, sad times.
Now its time to pay the order
The api says all flash sales have unguaranteed bandwith.
bandwidth-300-unguaranteed-25skle
Well yea KS never has guaranteed
Anyone had any CPU lottos looks like it's just RAM, Drive and Network this time around.
true. I got a file server during BF sales out of fomo and was about to let it go until I ran a speed test and discovered its 10g up/down. the disks are all new as well which is rare for ovh in my experience.
KS-LE-[A-E] had guaranteed bandwidth. Or at least not explicitly "unguaranteed": bandwidth-300-25skle
Yea but they say it when its guaranteed otherwise it defaults to not guaranteed, it's for Rise and better
How do you guys check your drives? I tried the smartctl thing and I can't understand the output it seems
Interesting stats are "Percentage used", "Data Units Read", "Data Units Written", "Power On Hours"
You get them with
smartctl -a /dev/${drive}Thanks, that's the command I've used to check but didn't seem to see the ones you've outlined. Although, interestingly, this is what I can see and it doesn't look good, I think.
Why do you think it doesn't look good?
I'll gladly give you my opinion, but can't do that without the exact disk model (it was in front off all those counters). The exact model is as important as the numbers, to make a proper conclusion.
You are lucky on multiple fronts. What did you order ?
Thanks, I'm looking at the NAND_Writes, Total_LBAs_*, and the TYPE column.
It has 60TB written while its rated for 341TBW. No reserved blocks so far.
Drive is in perfect condition as it seems.
OK, so it's a true enterprise drive, and with a pretty good 1.3 DWPD (that is disk writes per day). This is why model is important, to understand what you're dealing with. Older small drive model, but quite good.
Typically 5 year warranty on drives like this translates to 1.3 DWPD * 240GB drive size * 5 years * 365 days ~ 569 TB written. For such a small drive, that's a lot!
This is an important counter which says no flash cell has died so far.
These 2 confirm the fact, you have some 825 reserved blocks in case flash starts dying, but NONE has been used so far. So, the drive is actually in a GREAT shape, very far away from your "doesn't look good" verdict.
Let's dig further...
This is where mistake is possible, because various vendors interpret all those counters differently, still, I'll have to assume that LBA is just 512 bytes block. 130288610654 * 512 ~ 67 TB. This is to be compared with what we calculated in the first step, so 67 / 569 - cells have been used ~ 12% Or looking at it the other way, health is at 100 - 12 ~ 88%. Which is once again GREAT. The drive HAS NOT been abused. BTW, newer drives already have counter for this, but here we had to calculate it by hand.
Finally, how old it is, this is easy:
47222/24/365 ~ 5.4 years just out of warranty, and this is your first warning sign that this is old hardware, but as already ascertained in a very good shape. What this means is that it could go on for many years, and it could also die tomorrow, you just can't tell.
Final verdict: it's old but in a very good shape, use it for non-production stuff, or even for production, but have backup ready in case it dies suddenly.
Hope it helps.
Oh heavens, that was quite well explained and now I know where to look when doing a smartctl. This very informational for someone like me that doesn't have knowledge on the matter so thank you, it is very much appreciated.
Thanks for this, I definitely learnt something new today!
Thanks so much i have a similar drive but 3% cells have been used but power on time of 8 years i think it will be still good for production or does anyone have idea if drives fails will OVH replace it or will they stop the service?
??? ofc they replace why would they stop the service
This right here, now, is the moment where you think about how your automatic backups will be set up and how bad you’ll feel about losing data since the last backup.
KS-LE-1 i got 2x4tb drives instead of 2x2tb drives
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v2025-01-01
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Fri Jan 24 18:59:42 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 1 days, 26 hours, 0 minutes
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz
CPU cores : 8 @ 2777.940 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM : 62.8 GiB
Swap : 1024.0 MiB
Disk : 987.4 MiB
Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-51-generic
VM Type : NONE
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
ISP : OVH SAS
ASN : AS16276 OVH SAS
Host : OVH SAS
Location : Roubaix, Hauts-de-France (HDF)
Country : France
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition zp0/zd0):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
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Single Core | 709
Multi Core | 2684
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10097098
YABS completed in 16 min 16 sec`
What have I missed?
Btw the Rise-LE is incredibly cringe
kimsufi reduced their stockpile of idle 4TB hard drives by a fair bit, that's about all.
KS-LE-A
Picked up a KS-GAME-LE and I seemed to have won in the network department.
IPv4 is 1gbps dl/300mbps up
IPv6 is 1gbps symmetrical
Drive is only sitting at 94% health as well.
Oh and I fucking hate Java KVM.
Yes. Got my Refund.
And Jackpot!
Ordered yesterday KS-LE-2 - Location GRA.
I got Dual Intel Xeon E5-2630v3, 128 GB RAM, 2x 480 GB SSD + 2x 2 TB SATA.
Checked speed 1 GBIT in and out.
Damn you did hit a jackpot here