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On 4/13/23 18:43, Freddie Cash wrote:

> If you want the best performance, and money isn't a restriction, then 
> you'll want to look into servers that have U.2 (or whatever the next-gen 
> small form factor interface name is) slots and backplanes.  The 
> drives cost a lot more than regular M.2 SSDs

But, being "enterprise" drive, this is perhaps justified.
Actually they can even cost less than (slower) SATA "enterprise" drives.
Of course you'll need to add the cost of a controller, which you have 
almost always "for free" for SATA.

  bye
	av.