This kind of drive would be a lot more compelling with NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS), which is an abstraction over the different channels on a flash drive (and al

This kind of drive would be a lot more compelling with NVMe Zoned Namespaces (ZNS), which is an abstraction over the different channels on a flash drive (and also can manage shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hd's which have somewhat similar append-friendly modes). Typically this ZNS capability is for fancier drives. But giving systems the ability to more performantly deal with dram-less storage would be a huge potential help. A good OS should be able to manage without the temporary dram, especially if it can issue smart writes, rather than creating nasty write amplification problems. ZNS