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So there's a new Solid State storage option taking stride.
It's called U.3 in its current form. It's on the PCIe lane just like an M2 drive, but substantially faster, and up to crazy drive sizes. They're around the size of a 2.5" SATA SSD
They're about 1.5x the price of the Consumer grade M2 form factor per Gb, BUT have enterprise grade endurance and go up to pretty huge sizes, so when you pit them against enterprise M2 drives, they're about the same, at this place up to 30Tb and substantially faster speeds, up to around 7000Mb/s R/W vs the current fastest M2 of around 1500Mb/s
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BUT you need specialised connector hardware to fit them in a desktop PC.
You can get a PCIe x4 adapter card to fit them
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www.startech.com
So if you're doing huge write operations for large scale renders or something, they may well be appealing to you.
So there's a new Solid State storage option taking stride.
It's called U.3 in its current form. It's on the PCIe lane just like an M2 drive, but substantially faster, and up to crazy drive sizes. They're around the size of a 2.5" SATA SSD
They're about 1.5x the price of the Consumer grade M2 form factor per Gb, BUT have enterprise grade endurance and go up to pretty huge sizes, so when you pit them against enterprise M2 drives, they're about the same, at this place up to 30Tb and substantially faster speeds, up to around 7000Mb/s R/W vs the current fastest M2 of around 1500Mb/s
Enterprise 2.5" U.3 PCIe NVMe SSDs - 2.5 Inch U.2 PCIe NVMe Enterprise DataCentre Grade SSD | SCAN UK
Welcome to our Enterprise 2.5" U.3 PCIe NVMe SSDs - 2.5 Inch U.2 PCIe NVMe Enterprise DataCentre Grade SSD page. Here you will find leading brands such as Kioxia, Micron.
BUT you need specialised connector hardware to fit them in a desktop PC.
You can get a PCIe x4 adapter card to fit them
How to easily add a U.3 drive to your computer by Jose Antunes - ProVideo Coalition
Once a key product for data centers, U.3 drives have also been discovered by filmmakers looking for reliable storage solutions, as they can streamline production and editing involving large files. With capacities up to 30.72 TB, as the Micron 9400 NVMe Series for data centers offers U.3 drives...
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U.3 to PCIe Adapter Card For U.3 SSDs - Drive Adapters and Drive Converters | Hard Drive Accessories | StarTech.com United Kingdom
U.3 to PCIe Adapter Card, PCIe 4.0 x4 Adapter For 2.5' U.3 NVMe SSDs, SFF-TA-1001 PCI Express Add-in Card, TAA Compliant | United Kingdom
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So if you're doing huge write operations for large scale renders or something, they may well be appealing to you.
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