U.2 vs EDSFF E3.S: Enterprise SSD Form Factors Explained
Enterprise SSDs like the DC3000ME ship in U.2 , but the industry is steadily shifting toward EDSFF E3.S . If you spec servers, the U.2 vs EDSFF question will land on your…
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data center
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The Boot Drive Your Servers Deserve: DC2000B
Nobody benchmarks boot drives, which is exactly why they fail at the worst moment. The DC2000B is purpose-built for the job most data centers underthink: booting the serv…
SSD Endurance in the AI Era: Why DWPD Still Matters
AI workloads do not just consume GPU cycles — they punish storage. Checkpointing multi-hundred-gigabyte model states every few minutes turns SSD endurance from a footnote…
SSD Caching for NAS: Do You Need It?
Your NAS is full of hard drives, and someone told you an SSD cache will make it fly. Sometimes they are right. Often, the money is better spent elsewhere. SSD caching for…
OCP Summit 2026 Storage Preview: Kioxia's 122TB-Ready E1.L SSD and the Hyperscale Density Race
The OCP Global Summit 2026 opens tomorrow — October 12–15 at the San Jose Convention Center — and this year's storage story is density. Days before the doors open, Kioxia…
DC3000ME Gen5 U.2 SSD Scales to 30.72TB for AI-Era Data Centers
A new high-capacity tier has been added to the DC3000ME Gen5 U.2 NVMe SSD lineup, taking the drive to 30.72TB in a single 2.5-inch U.2 form factor — a launch squarely aim…