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Re:80M I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U System by chx on Thursday May 27, 2021 @11:22PM (#27311397)
> The system has 2 CPUs with 64 PCIe Gen 4 lanes each, giving us plenty of PCIe lanes to connect NVMe SSDs

Imagine if they used EPYC CPUs... 160 PCIe lanes.

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Re:80M I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U System by unglaublich on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:03AM (#27313925)
They could have achieved this 'milestone', 1.5 yrs ago. Feels like an Intel ad to me.
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Re:80M I/O Per Second with a Standard 2U System by SkipperCat on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:57AM (#27314303)
Agreed. Intel Optane NVMe has been out for quite a while, we've been using them for at least 3 years now. Still, I'm love reading articles showcasing their performance. NVMe is such a game changer for storage I/O based systems.
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