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'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises (www.techradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

You can put multiple 8 gig m.2 ssds into 2.5" slot.