netcat encapsulates data just the same (although in a different manner), and it's even more battle-tested. NVMe over TCP use case is to actually use the remote

netcat encapsulates data just the same (although in a different manner), and it's even more battle-tested. NVMe over TCP use case is to actually use the remote disk over the network as it were local. If you just need to dump a whole disk like in the article, dd+netcat (or even just netcat, as someone pointed out) will work just the same.