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More bytes is more bytes. Flood the market until big AI firms can’t afford to monopolize the hardware anymore and finally collapse so we real people can finally compute again.
These would be useless for AI given the high write requirements inherent to any form of 'AI' in use today; but data centers would absolute eat these up for low-write CDN usage, i.e. netflix which only updates their catalogue once every few days but needs high read speeds for multiple users. So we'd still be competing with data centers for them, but luckily just much fewer.
It would make (assuming it can fit in a standard 3.5" bay) petabyte+ home data servers pretty trivial to set up though which is pretty neat. 4k Jellyfin data hoarders should rejoice.
Like I said, more bytes is more bytes. Even if it’s a niche use case, that takes pressure off of other use cases.