At least some vendors are already doing that. The Dell 730xd will take up to 4 PCIe SSDs in regular hard drive bays - http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r730xd/pd Nick
On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eu...@imacandi.net> wrote: > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Barry Shein <b...@world.std.com> wrote: > > > > > On May 9, 2015 at 00:24 char...@thefnf.org (char...@thefnf.org) wrote: > > > > > > > > > So I just crunched the numbers. How many pies could I cram in a rack? > > > > For another list I just estimated how many M.2 SSD modules one could > > cram into a 3.5" disk case. Around 40 w/ some room to spare (assuming > > heat and connection routing aren't problems), at 500GB/each that's > > 20TB in a standard 3.5" case. > > > > It's getting weird out there. > > > > > I think the next logical step in servers would be to remove the traditional > hard drive cages and put SSD module slots that can be hot swapped. Imagine > inserting small SSD modules on the front side of the servers and directly > connect them via PCIe to the motherboard. No more bottlenecks and a > software RAID of some sorts would actually make a lot more sense than the > current controller based solutions. >