I’m curious on your use case. I’ve always had boot disk or boot disk array separate from any data array.
Are you referring to things like a home directory?
Are you referring to things like a home directory?
On an edge-style machine, you generally have a very limited number of M.2 slots, and dedicating one to a boot device uses up potentially 100% of your potential storage capacity, not to mention that an extra drive would be a non negligible fraction of total cost.
On modern servers, there may not be a usable SATA controller, and NVMe usually costs 4 PCIe lanes. Those aren’t free. You also end up paying the absurd OEM premium for an extra disk if you go with a big name OEM. Sadly, there is no industry standard cheap, reliable boot device standard, at least as far as I’ve ever seen. Maybe someone should push USB3 for this use case — the price is certainly right, and performance is likely just fine.
There are also SATA-DOMs or USB-DOMs. You could use one of these modules with your machine.
Also, an external dangly thing is asking for trouble (getting dislodged). An internal device solves this.
In any case, the Talos people seem to recognize this as a problem and are working on it.