Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.13 Rolling Out NVMe 2.1 Support & NVMe Rotational Media

All of the block subsystem changes were sent out today for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel, including a prominent set of NVMe additions...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-Block-NVMe

[davidbepo]

wait what, why would you use NVMe for HDD?

[dlq84]

wait what, why would you use NVMe for HDD?

Why not? NVME support vastly more command queues and is both faster and more efficient over fiber channel. Just to name a couple of reasons.

[Joe2021]

Sounds great. Nevertheless it is so sad that most consumer SSDs only support exactly one namespace at once. That is as useful as a partition table scheme capable to hold one partition max - aka pointless!

[edxposed]

This seems to make it possible for Android to adopt NVMe instead of UFS, which previously had no standardized inline encryption offload support. Too bad 6.13 isn't an LTS.

[Quackdoc]

This seems to make it possible for Android to adopt NVMe instead of UFS, which previously had no standardized inline encryption offload support. Too bad 6.13 isn't an LTS.

well *android* could be installed on nvme for ages now its just up to the manufacture to choose what to do

[uid313]

wait what, why would you use NVMe for HDD?

Well, else you would probably use Serial-ATA (SATA) which is currently at revision 3.5a released in 2021 but it derives from SATA 3.0 released in 2018 or 2019 so it is still only 6 Gbit/s which is 600 MB/s.

When is SATA going away, when is SATA getting replaced, and when is SATA getting a major upgrade that increases the bandwidth?

It's too bad that most motherboards just have one or two M.2 slots.

[caligula]

wait what, why would you use NVMe for HDD?

Moore's law. SATA3 is limited to 600 MB/s per drive. NVMe already supports PCIe 5.0 16x drives already transfer up to 63 GB/s and more is expected with PCIe 6.0. You just need to spin the motor a bit faster.

[davidbepo]

man people here with the memes and missing the point so hard
NVMe requires a new physical connector and form factor over SATA/SAS, also wake me up when an HDD comes close to even touching sata limits, this is just nonsense

[hajj_3]

wait what, why would you use NVMe for HDD?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e3Eo858kMs