storage architecture Archives

OpenMetal’s v5 Hardware and Ceph: Where Intentional Design Meets Distributed Storage

Updated on June 11, 2026 by Sash Ghosh

All-NVMe OSDs, an isolated boot pool, a clean lane budget, and identical nodes: how OpenMetal’s v5 hardware makes Ceph behave predictably instead of needing tuning.

Micron 7500 MAX: Dual Drive vs Single Drive Architecture on Bare Metal for Mission-Critical Databases

Updated on October 23, 2025 by Sash Ghosh

Discover why dual smaller NVMe drives outperform single larger drives for enterprise databases on bare metal infrastructure. Learn about workload separation, parallel I/O, and endurance benefits with Micron 7500 MAX SSDs on OpenMetal’s XLv4 and XXLv4 servers for mission-critical applications.