Honestly I don't quite get why they do have a problem here.

That chassis sports a proper 16-port SAS backplane so they can just use... SAS drives?

Sure, SAS 7.68Tb drives cost a bit more than some shit like 870 QVO 8Tb SATA drive, but:

you will have at least 12Gbps instead of 6Gbps of bandwidth so your storage would be faster;

you will not have a shitshow of STP so your storage would be faster;

you will not have a USB thumbdrive speeds if you exhaust the SLC cache so your storage would be faster;

you will have a better DWPD (1 vs 0.3) so your storage would be faster for a longer time.

But okay, even if you don't go the SAS way... I'm again not sure what is going on here, but besides 870 EVO (desktop SATA QLC shit) there are Kingston DC600M, Solidigm D3-S4520 and Samsung PM893 which are the enterprise SATA drives and they cost only 10% more than 870 EVO (and only 10% less than Kioxia PM6-R SAS).

Oh, by the way: don't do U.2 in 2025 and later. It would bite you later.

youre right.

his article does not make sense at all. i do not ... know why it is even here and why some other commenters are inserting additional "points" to that article just to make it seem sane. :)