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arrow-up142arrow-down1external-link'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterpriseswww.techradar.comSunshine (she/her) to [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-3•7 months 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-27 months 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.
minus-squareSaltySalamanderlinkfedilink0•7 months agoTell me, what would be the issue of reading data from an m.2 drive in a server?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-1•7 months agoM.2 drives like to get hot and die. They work great until they don’t.
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.
Tell me, what would be the issue of reading data from an m.2 drive in a server?
M.2 drives like to get hot and die. They work great until they don’t.