nvme u.2 storage server

[unijab]

Am i crazy or didnt Linus buy 24 each U.2 nvme 1.2TB ssds...

 

He said it a long time ago on a wan show that he was buying them.... but its been months and no video about it....

[scottyseng]

10 minutes ago, unijab said:

Am i crazy or didnt Linus buy 24 each U.2 nvme 1.2TB ssds...

 

He said it a long time ago on a wan show that he was buying them.... but its been months and no video about it....

It's already been in operation in the server room?

 

He did make a video on it. I forgot what it was called though. It was the one with the SuperMicro NVMe server and they're using Windows Storage Spaces to run it. haha.

 

Found it:

 

[unijab]

Thanks for confirming that I am crazy

[leadeater]

3 hours ago, unijab said:

Thanks for confirming that I am crazy

On a scale of 'not crazy to has a 24 NVMe server' you aren't that crazy 

[Jarsky]

It's not very crazy at all in the enterprise space. Servers like this are perfect for providing services like AWS cloud databases. Though this is where those enterprise Optane drives come in, being able to accelerate spindle arrays with extremely low queue depths for a fraction of the cost. 

[leadeater]

4 hours ago, Jarsky said:

It's not very crazy at all in the enterprise space. Servers like this are perfect for providing services like AWS cloud databases. Though this is where those enterprise Optane drives come in, being able to accelerate spindle arrays with extremely low queue depths for a fraction of the cost. 

A lot of storage array controllers are now using NVMe as write-back cache instead of NVDIMM too, or supplementary to. We're currently looking at upgrading to Netapp FAS8200 controllers which have the onboard NVMe, should give a decent increase in performance over the 8040's along with way more RAM and CPU.

[Daan101]

I know this is an old post so sorry for any notifications you get about this but I've been wanting to know which WAN show it was that he talked about this, and I've finally found it: 

 

[Falconevo]

On 10/6/2017 at 10:25 AM, leadeater said:

A lot of storage array controllers are now using NVMe as write-back cache instead of NVDIMM too, or supplementary to. We're currently looking at upgrading to Netapp FAS8200 controllers which have the onboard NVMe, should give a decent increase in performance over the 8040's along with way more RAM and CPU.

eww netapp get out