Traditional Storage Node consists of Compute, Networking and Storage elements. In this case, the entire node is a single failure domain and as such both data and meta data are maintained in storage. Emergence of CXL allows us to re-think the traditional storage node architecture. In future, the storage (behind CXL IO) and metadata memory (behind a CXL memory) can be disaggregated locally or across a bunch of storage nodes to improve the availability of the data. Further, memory persistence can be achieved at a granular level using CXL memory devices.