I don’t think international shipping is going to keep that price at $40 per TB 
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the VATS or duty hassles are not that bad, i live in germany and bought 3x 7.9TB CD6 and each CD6 was 30€ VATS and each drives was 345€ so 45ish€/TB 
when the seller sents it via FedEx everything is handled by FedEx and you can pay VATS via App.
sure a HBA is mandatory when you want use more than 2 of them, there are not much m.2 to CPU lanes Boards out there.
on the server site of things are much better options like SlimSAS SFF-8654 to U.2 adapters and bifurcating (works fine for me)
my Journey to CD6s was smooth and not complicated.
i see only one downtrade, the power draw… 5w idle for each drive. that adds up but i dont need more than 30TB SSD storage in near future.
You are chipping away my resolve not to buy additional crap I dont need here mate. Seriously chipping away.
Yes, fedex is a godsend compared to czech post. Anything is.
How the hell did you get 10% VAT in germany? Lucky bastard, come over here and annex us already. I would vastly prefer you to status quo.
Its 400 EUR base and 85 EUR VAT minimum for me (7,68TB variant), disregarding transportation costs ( that increase both).
Anyways, would you mind:
- measuring how much these drives consumer idle versus full load
- running AS SSD benchmark against one
High powerdraw and somewhat silent desktop do not mix well.
EDIT: Has aliexpress search always been this shitty? Crosschecking if there are any CD6 on sale over there.
i have em in my Unraid server allready and i can only reach em over iscsi and smb. Since i cant use RoCe or similiar, the performance is not THAT amasing keep that in mind
the connection is trough 2x 100Gbe Mellanox X4 trough an Mikrotik CRS504-4XQ-IN 100Gbe switch
iscsi (steam games, apps etc) its allready an array
SMB 1mb ZFS (for making fast backups and restores)
copy and paste internally
scrubbing makes fun
energie wise like i said 5w idle thats what Unraid tells me and if they run 100% about 20watt’ish per drive. (what the specs on Kioxias website says)
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Looking at this as an American, the distances in Europe are small. If VAT is less in an adjacent country, why not do your shopping there?
Where? its like $70 on ebay
that was during the october nand trough where you could even get “new” SSDs like the 980 for close to $70/tb. You can still get “in bulk” for close-ish to 40$/tb but you gotta buy a rack at a time from surplus.
Yeah i rarely see anything near $50 per TB that would be worth buying.
I was paying like $80/tb for P4600
Used ebay wares with import duites + vat undercuts all primary markets here. At least it undercuts all easily found storefronts. Local secondary market is virtually nonexistent or stratosperically expensive.
EU market is fragmented and its hard to orientate within, compared to giants like amazon, newegg et. al. Only good meta search engine I know of is geizhals.eu
I have been looking around for alternative sources, and so far its:
- ebay used Kixoxia CDS6 ~~( 50€/TB + 21% VAT + 10% import duty) = 65€/TB
- local brand new Kioxia CD6 74€/TB vat included.
- local brand new SAmsung 990 PRO 79€/TB vat included
Not much of a steal 
Its more suprising how cheap storage got in recent years.
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