In my experience there is only one good model in size of 2280 for Ceph, and that is Micron 7300 MAX They go up to 800GB in size. 7400 MAX just came out recently and should be even better. Should be around $200-$250 for the 800GB one. J. Ján Senko Proton AG Lead Storage Engineer ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Sunday, November 14th, 2021 at 9:55, Varun Priolkar <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I am a home user trying to build a homelab for Ceph+KVM VMs. I have > > acquired 3 Lenovo Tiny M920q systems for this purpose. I am trying to > > select not so expensive M.2 NVMe or M.2 SATA SSDs, but it is hard to > > find information on which drives would have OK performance with Ceph. > > My systems have a 1x M.2 2280 slot. The 2.5" SATA slot would be > > unusable after I replace it with a 10/40Gbe network card. > > From what I read online, I need to look for drives with PLP. Can > > someone please recommend some M.2 drives to me? I am fine with buying > > used and my budget is 200 CAD or around 160 USD per drive. Would > > prefer capacity close to 1TB as usable capacity would be the same > > divided by 3. > > Thank you. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Regards, > > Varun Priolkar > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx