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No shit. All they have to do is finally grow the balls to build SSD's in the same form factor as the 3.5" drives everyone in enterprise is already using, and stuff those to the gills with flash chips.
"But that will cannibalize our artificially price inflated/capacity restricted M.2 sales if consumers get their hands on them!!!"
Yep, it sure will. I'll take ten, please.
Something like that could easily fill the oodles of existing bays that are currently filled with mechanical drives, both in the home user/small scale enthusiast side and existing rackmount stuff. But that'd be too easy.
I hope youre not putting m.2 drives in a server if you plan on reading the data from them at some point. Those are for consumers and there's an entirely different formfactor for enterprise storage using nvme drives.
Tell me, what would be the issue of reading data from an m.2 drive in a server?
M.2 drives like to get hot and die. They work great until they don't.
Sounds to me like you need to work on the cooling in your server case.
TBH i have an old ssd for the host and rust for all my data. Don't have m.2 or u.2 in my server but I've heard enough horror stories to just use u.2 if the time comes.