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For a very space and power conscious datacenter customer maybe. Building similar capacity (and way, way, way faster) storage from consumer nvme m.2 SSDs should come around 6,5K€ +VAT here. That's assuming you really need that much fast nvme storage for something. A hybrid approach will usually be much more amenable to a consumer sized wallet, only storing the live dataset in nvme and using HDD for mass storage

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What are you using to provide the 16 m2 sockets in that theoretical system? Now I can't say I've seen a consumer board with u2 but I think it'd be easier to find 1 of those than 16 m2.

Some high end gaming motherboards have U.2.

If you don't have a U.2 connector, you can use a PCIe adapter card.

If you want 16x M.2 slots, you can use two 8x M.2 PCIe carrier cards.

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