Been wondering if anyone has tried this or at least considered.
Basically, with some AM5 mobos, like Asus Pro WS B850M-ACE SE, one could install 6x Samsung 9100 Pro NVMe SSDs (2 directly in M.2 slots, 4 in x16 slot bifurcated), each with peak 14.8GB/s sequential read speeds, with full 5.0 x4 PCIe lanes. That'd add up to 88.8GB/s peak bandwidth in RAID0, falling into the range of dual-channel DDR5 bandwidth.
I'm aware that latency is way worse with SSDs, and that 14.8GB/s is only the sequential peak, but still, wouldn't that approach dual-channel DDR5 in LLM inference tasks while giving way more capacity per dollar? The minimum capacity with 9100 Pros would be 6TB total.
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