EPYC has 128 PCIe lanes, although most motherboards only have around 64 lanes available to PCIe slots. With the right HBAs and cables, one could get at least 16 of these into a server, which would give 128 TB of NVMe SSD storage (direct attached, no expanders).
Now things are getting interesting. :D Although very expensive!
The capacity itself is nothing interesting, Crucial had the 9300 MAX with up to 15.36 TB in U.2 format out for quite some time now. And it's a good bit faster, too.
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phoenix_rizzen - Monday, March 2, 2020 - link
EPYC has 128 PCIe lanes, although most motherboards only have around 64 lanes available to PCIe slots. With the right HBAs and cables, one could get at least 16 of these into a server, which would give 128 TB of NVMe SSD storage (direct attached, no expanders).Now things are getting interesting. :D Although very expensive!
antonkochubey - Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - link
The capacity itself is nothing interesting, Crucial had the 9300 MAX with up to 15.36 TB in U.2 format out for quite some time now. And it's a good bit faster, too.bcronce - Thursday, March 5, 2020 - link
Imagine the bandwidth