Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GiB/s IO on a Single Threadripper Workstation (2021) (tanelpoder.com)
TL;DR Modern disks are so fast that system performance bottleneck shifts to RAM access and CPU. With up to 64 cores, PCIe 4.0 and 8 memory channels, even a single-socket AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation makes a hell of a powerful machine - if you do it right!