The "opaque" array reflects a system with an NVMe front end, but the internal implementation is vendor specific, and not necessarily presented by the vendor (aka "opaque").This mockup shows a system that presents an NVMe front-end but also exposes a SATA drive backend. This could be done to support both FRU management and volume/namespace creation.
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