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That also necessitates a matching network bandwidth as well.

It reminds me of the Bugatti Veyron situation, its tires lasting 15 minutes at top speed yet it runs out of fuel in 12.

I'd rather run out of fuel and drift to a stop, instead of having a blowout and crash while driving at top speed. I'm not sure where the problem lies.

It's not a problem with the car, it's an analogy that the fuel and the network are bottlenecks where normally the tires and storage might be.

Still doesn’t make sense. The car is correctly configured (for safety purposes), and it would also make sense to be able to write to storage faster than your network speeds (no database writes exactly what it receives from the network, it adds metadata and structuring).

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