Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day 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-square102fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down14
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minus-squarefuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 hours 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-up1·8 hours agoYou can put multiple 8 gig m.2 ssds into 2.5" slot.
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.