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I'm still stuck on SATA, don't see the point of NVMe because there is no application I want to write that needs that disk speed. I use my servers as MMO backen
by bullen 5y ago
I'm still stuck on SATA, don't see the point of NVMe because there is no application I want to write that needs that disk speed.
I use my servers as MMO backends, partly they will serve files, but mostly they'll do real-time networking and db stuff... some AI for the monsters and validation for anti-cheat so I need CPU more than fast storage or network.
- dijit 5y agoOk. But, we’re talking home servers and for _most_ people that’s a file server, or something heavy with I/O and SATA is still I/O. Most (if not all) SATA controllers interface to the CPU with PCIe (lspci will show you a SATA controller on the PCI bus)