Western Digital started shipping 20TB drives

Bombastinator · January 2, 2020

17 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

In fact, yes! 15mm is the standard for drives focused to servers but as you said that does not mean that they cannot be used in other cases, it is rare to see because people don´t put them in their home computer too often, but still a possibility.

Heh. True. It’s not the drive height it’s the port. Used to be hard drives were “full height” which I think was 2U or something close. Maybe even 4u. Not sure.

seagate_surfer · January 2, 2020

35 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Heh. True. It’s not the drive height it’s the port. Used to be hard drives were “full height” which I think was 2U or something close. Maybe even 4u. Not sure.

You probably meant the U.2 (SFF-8639) connector, because of the lack of options the manufatcurers started to create adapters to M.2 like these ones:

Then over time these other type of cables appeared with no U.2 to M.2 adapter required: