The DapuStor Haishen5 SSD H5100 30.72TB is a really neat drive. A big trend in the industry is that large-capacity SSDs have gone from being very niche to being sold out for quarters in advance. Much of that volume is around slow, but very high-capacity drives. DapuStor has something different. A still denser-than-HDD 30.72TB capacity, but with PCIe Gen5 performance. That makes this a neat SSD.
You may have seen this drive in our Supermicro SYS-222H-TN 2U Intel Xeon 6 server review. We figured since we had the drive, we might as well do a review of it.
DapuStor Haishen5 SSD H5100 30.72TB Overview
The DapuStor Haishen5 SSD H5100 looks very unassuming despite the fact it is combining capacity and performance.
The drive itself is a standard 2.5″ SSD design. One side is mostly covered by heatsink fins.
Here we have our power and data connections.
Here is the other side.
There are different form factors for the drive, and we are not looking at the fastest version. Instead, this is designed to be fast, but also very large. The 15.36TB drive may be slightly faster, but the 30.72TB capacity is much denser. For those that want different form factors, there are E1.S and E3.S drives available.
The one drive write per day endurance rating is one that many will point to as they have been accustomed to purchasing 3 DWPD drives. At 30.72TB, 1 DWPD is a lot especially since these high-capacity drives are more likely to be storing media not just small files. We recently did a used data center SSD survey and found that most drives, even at much smaller capacities, were using well under 0.5 DWPD. On a large capacity drive like this, 1DWPD feels generous.
Not in the specs, but something we have covered previously, is that this was one of the first drives using the Marvell Bravera controller.
Now, we have had the chance to look at one in a hands-on review. Let us get to that next.
Found another of Patrick’s Easter Eggs! “storage-class memeory drives”
As a data hoarder I’m so happy we’re finally getting some decent capacity drives trickling down to affordable second-hand prices. Still a way to go before I’m truly happy but maybe a few of those upcoming 128TB drives might just do the trick!
We really need a Synology/QNAP offering that offers 4-8 bays of PCIe gen5 in a standard small desktop format enclosure.
We are getting to the point where large scale SSDs make more sense from a capacity standpoint than hdds do.
@James: so a budget solution like Synology or Qnap to host enterprise grade drives? Doesn’t make sense to me.
No inside view? So disappoint.
> “There are also smaller storage-class memory drives that are often in the 800GB to 1.6TB range.”.
The KIOXIA FL6 SCM Series goes up to 3.2 TB.
So how can I get an idea on the prices of these drives mentioned here? It’s not like they’re available at AMZ.
How about prices? Yes, exact values may depend on factors such as quantity, but a figure should be provided. It’s not a national secret.