Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago'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.comexternal-linkmessage-square111fedilinkarrow-up1189arrow-down14
arrow-up1185arrow-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)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square111fedilink
minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoFor servers physical space is also a huge concern. 2.5” drives cap out at like 6tb I think, while you can easily find an 8tb 2.5” SSD anywhere. We have 16tb drives in one of our servers at work and they weren’t even that expensive. (Relatively)
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoYou can put multiple 8 gig m.2 ssds into 2.5" slot.
minus-squareSaltySalamander@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThose m.2 drives need 4 lanes of PCIe each.
For servers physical space is also a huge concern. 2.5” drives cap out at like 6tb I think, while you can easily find an 8tb 2.5” SSD anywhere. We have 16tb drives in one of our servers at work and they weren’t even that expensive. (Relatively)
You can put multiple 8 gig m.2 ssds into 2.5" slot.
Those m.2 drives need 4 lanes of PCIe each.
And?