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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Does anyone else use Enterprise U.2 SSD drives on a desktop PC or Mac? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Gigabyte was putting U.2 ports on some consumer motherboards or a hot second. My z170 designare has one. Never used it though.