Hi, the workplace's IT department are decommisioning some of their servers, and i came across some enterprise SSD that they can let go. Since my old nvme ssd is less than 20% life now, i'm thinking why not anyway, since the enterprise drive's remaining useful ife is at least 1pbw (according to the IT staff lah).

It is a 5 year old memblaze that uses pcie x4 slot.

My question is :
1) how to connect that to my pc since the only pcie slot already used by the gpu?
2) i'm ok cloning out the data on my current old nvme drive, but can this type of enterprise drive become a boot drive?
3) do i need a separate controller?
4) can those m.2 to pcie converter be used for this purpose if it doesn't require a controller?

Thanks in advance.

I assume your free slot will be the NVME so can try find this adaptor in Ali

u need upgrade

thanks, will find out more about this connector

what do you mean specifically?

The enterprise SSD not a good option.. speed slower due to prevent excessive heat.. home use can a normal SSD can de

Cost of Server SSD + adapter + trouble to figure it out + the jerry rigged solution
vs
New retail NVMe drive PnP replacement

I guess that is the choice you have to make

SSD's prices have gone up noticeably, and here i have the option of getting something that people want to toss out at a token price, the choice is pretty obvious despite the extra effort to get things working

Im more surprised they are ok to resell these to you. Usually datacenters will destroy all decommissioned storage medias as even full drive wipes can still retain some data so due to privacy laws their required to destroy the hardware until the media cannot be salvaged ie HDD plates, SSD NAND chips.

Maybe in Msia nobody does that, I dunno. Perhaps its one of the reason why our personal data so easy to get. I doubt local techies even do zero wipes on drives before throwing away intact.

probably the server is under-utilized hence the decommision,
or they run those in RAID and you cant recover data from RAID SSD without specialized knowledge.

The rub is, hackers that targets datacenter hardware do have such specialised knowledge & tools. Which is why proper IT setups will physically destroy decom drives before scrapping where there is no chance to retrieve data.

If that server used to store credit card info, whoa baby!

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Mar 20 2024, 05:13 PM

actually, no need to try so hard to get credit card info.....angmoh c***bank credit card notorious kena targetted compared to other banks, multiple of my contacts and even my mum kena....feel like it is the payment processing portal on their end got problem instead of their data storage end....

This post has been edited by wkc5657: Mar 21 2024, 01:03 PM

they actually steal the leaked credit card info via SQL injection, or database dump,
hacker would sell on darkweb to let those with tools and time to extract the info, the buyer would resell again to individual, probably.

credit card info or customer info are surely encrypted in storage, nobody stores plain text info in server, it's asking for trouble, if leaked and kena investigation they will be fined until pants drop.

my card kena few times already, one occasion is from Australia, they swiped 200 dollar lol but mine is prepaid debit,
one on Batam uber 50 cent... then one on US 500 dollars i think, for some old fart urethra infection...

nowadays safest is use one-time debit prepaid, so far only Revolut have this feature.

We don't exactly have that but Wise is good enough
Can create 3 virtual cards + 1 physical card
I keep one virtual card always frozen, unfreeze for 1 off transactions and then freeze back immediately afterwards

You guys dont use bigpay?
damn they recently implemented fees, now even less reason to use it lol

Singapore have a lot of choice, people here spoiled lol, we have a lot of fintech here.
but when comes to reliability, revolut, wise are the best.


Anyway back to OP, as long as the storage interface use standard NVME m.2 you should be good to go, can be placed into external storage to, no need to headache about the pcie to nvme adapter.
or resell to someone else to make profit!

Infinitepay s/b

Promptpay solution

my mum kens fraudulent transaction for plane ticket of 20k in middle east....scared the shit out of us tried to call their airline so many times and quite a sum for overseas call.....in the end just call the bank card service to freeze card and chargeback, they like tidak apa je....seems like they so used to it....that c***bank really notorious.....good that they are gone now

it's actually not bank fault, some bank would block and call the card owner to verify, some straight block,
the 3DS verification would sometimes prompt to verify, sometimes doesn't, if your action satisfy the condition like the usual amount/place/time/location.

i kena like too many times, GRAB pay kena a lot, then the DBS Singapore, like, a lot, especially from facebook ads, only few dollar but you know your card detail leaked,
just call then they will waive the fraudulent charge unconditionally, terminate the card then send the replacement to you
mostly this 2 bank/fintech lol

if you use your card on online platfrom there will be a risk of dataleak, all of them face cyberattack like every day.

You can connect the enterprise SSD using an M.2 to PCIe adapter since your GPU occupies the PCIe slot. It's totally feasible to use it as a boot drive if your motherboard supports booting from PCIe devices. Typically, you won't need a separate controller for this setup. Those M.2 to PCIe converters should work fine, just ensure your motherboard supports booting from PCIe devices.

there is enterprise class PCIE NAS bay.. but i dont think easy to buy.. unless u go to ask ur IT vendor to source.. and its not cheap