HP Z Turbo Drive Pro Quad

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Axel Mertes
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HP Z Turbo Drive Pro Quad

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Hi All,

has anyone around used a HP Z Turbo Drive Pro Quad, generally as a generic drive or even with PrimoCache?

I really like the idea that the HP Z Turbo Drive Pro Quad comes with the ability to write back all data in queue onto the SSDs in case of a power failure. So it does some kind of deferred write processing internally, while making sure not loosing data that has been send to the drive at all. Thats a fantastic approach.

Unfortunately the drive is currently BIOS locked to the HP z840/640/440 workstations, but there are similar drives from Dell and other vendors.

The HP drive is fairly cheap, like 800 Euros for 512 GBytes of data (using 2 * 256 GB M.2 Samsung 950 Pro SSDs). It can hold up to 4 * 512 GB M.2 Samsung 950 Pro SSDs with an aggregated bandwidth around 9 GBytes/s reads and 6 GBytes/s writes. And in full configuration with this 2 TByte capacity it is around 1650 Euros (450 Euros for the drive chassis, 300 Euros per M.2 512 GB module = 1200 Euros).

I would like to hear if anyone has real-world experience with the drive. Specs are specs, hands-on information is a different thing.

Best
Axel
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