2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise
Nov 06, 2025•25 min
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Episode description
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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