m.2 (NVMe) is so fast and cheap it's absurd. I blinked(a few years) on hardware and when I went shopping for a new disk was blown away by the price to performance.
I was equally as shocked to discover the crap-show that is the m.2 controller space. I felt for sure supermicro would have chassis you could load up with those suckers and they'd be hot-swappable and changing the face of storage. Instead I found proprietary(Intel/AMD) RAID drivers coupled to specific CPU models and expansion cards that could take a measly 4 drives(no hot-swapp).
I was equally as shocked to discover the crap-show that is the m.2 controller space. I felt for sure supermicro would have chassis you could load up with those suckers and they'd be hot-swappable and changing the face of storage. Instead I found proprietary(Intel/AMD) RAID drivers coupled to specific CPU models and expansion cards that could take a measly 4 drives(no hot-swapp).