EspHack:

thats why I hope newer platforms replace sata with nvme slots, right now I got 5 sata ports essentially wasting bandwidth that I wont ever use instead of being allocated to my secondary nvme slot they are at price parity at least on amazon, and anything 2tb+ just makes no sense, just buy a bunch of 1tb units

Well i still use hdds and a lot of users bulk storage reasons atm i have 2tb one and a 3tb one and when i fill the 3tb one i will add another one most likely 4tb ... I live alone i have no use for a nas really 😛 I would very much agree more m2 slots will be welcome ! Even if some these m2 slots are actually sata .

EspHack:

thats why I hope newer platforms replace sata with nvme slots, right now I got 5 sata ports essentially wasting bandwidth that I wont ever use instead of being allocated to my secondary nvme slot they are at price parity at least on amazon, and anything 2tb+ just makes no sense, just buy a bunch of 1tb units

no thanks, SAS would be preferable over m.2.

esphack is right for gamers. not for everyone, we all have our different needs for storage like our different tastes in software. i have a vast library of lossless music and i long ago digitized video so i have my whole library so to conserve space and energy i retired my 12 spinning disk NAS (system incl. legacy spinners still working) and have gone to a 12Tb SSD based NAS of six 2Tb SSDs. i would rather have a single box NAS of three drives with an empty slot

Got a MX500 with the newer SMI2559/R043 firmware, the write amplication issue does appear fixed.