anyone know what this connector is called?

[yuki@xantronix.social]

@aeva u.2!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.2

[ugurcan@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva “cursed” :O

[rf@mas.to]

@Yuki @aeva yes! if recent, probably an awesome nvme ssd, though as the wiki article you linked points out the connector alone doesn't tell you with certainty

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ugurcan it sure is lol

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rf @Yuki it's a 8TB drive iirc :3

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rf @Yuki i'm gonna destroy it with unreal engine (assuming it's compatible with my workstation)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

oh neat, apparently this thing is a datacenter SSD

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

I wonder which is rougher on SSDs, average datacenter workloads or AAA perforce syncs + page file thrashing when cooking unreal

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva data center. On a disk server there is a long queue of operations pending at all times, essentially.

[djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva think it might be the latter, but just guessing