> Because it's actually fairly slow.
"We were reading data at 635 GiB/s. We broke 15 million 4k random read IOPS."
Source: https://ceph.io/en/news/blog/2024/ceph-a-journey-to-1tibps/
I don't know man, I think 15M random read IOPS is actually quite fast. I've built multi million IOPS clusters in enterprise settings all on nvme in the past.