2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

Update: 2025-11-06
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Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.


 


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2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

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