Does anyone else use Enterprise U.2 SSD drives on a desktop PC or Mac?
Does anyone else use Enterprise U.2 SSD drives on a desktop PC or Mac?
What's your story?
How did you get into it and what do you like most about it? How the heck are you interfacing and connecting it all together? And what advantages do you perceive? I'm curious to learn.
Feels like an untapped world to bridge, especially when the cost-per-TB and longevity is significantly higher, and when refurbished, can be even cheaper than consumer drives (like the Samsung 870 EVO that tops out at 8 TB). Was chatting up a smart fella who amassed a stack of 30.72 TB SSDs, after getting them on a fire sale from a datacenter that was upgrading to 61.44 TBs.
Imagine that.
I use U.2 NVMe SSDs in my workstation which are directly connected to the slimline SAS ports on the motherboard using slimline SAS to u.2 cables.
Gigabyte was putting U.2 ports on some consumer motherboards or a hot second. My z170 designare has one. Never used it though.