It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/d-e-void on 2025-02-04 03:46:33.

Okay so I've mostly got LFF drives in my current setup, but I'm looking at upgrading to a 4 blade system that has 24 SFF bays.

I'll absolutely be keeping my primary storage running, but I'd like to look into actually using the SFF bays and not just having them as decoration.

However, in my (albeit quick cursory) research I'm seeing that m.2 form factor drives seem to be more available than SFF drives.

Does anyone have any experience with using SFF adapters to run m.2 drives, and are the adapter cards that carry multiple m.2 drives into a single SFF bay actually worth it?

(Or would I be better off replacing the backplane with something that I can throw m.2 drives straight into?)