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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-2•8 days agoI hope youre not putting m.2 drives in a server if you plan on reading the data from them at some point. Those are for consumers and there’s an entirely different formfactor for enterprise storage using nvme drives.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-28 days agoEnterprise systems do have m.2, though admittedly its only really used as pretty disposable boot volumes. Though they aren’t used as data volumes so much, it’s not due to unreliability, it’s due to hot swap and power levels.
I hope youre not putting m.2 drives in a server if you plan on reading the data from them at some point. Those are for consumers and there’s an entirely different formfactor for enterprise storage using nvme drives.
Enterprise systems do have m.2, though admittedly its only really used as pretty disposable boot volumes.
Though they aren’t used as data volumes so much, it’s not due to unreliability, it’s due to hot swap and power levels.