> Are the 128 lanes per system a feature that actually draws in users with real world demands or is this the wrong thing to focus on? I'm going to go out on a

> Are the 128 lanes per system a feature that actually draws in users with real world demands or is this the wrong thing to focus on? I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest (based on my own experience[1]) that most users are too ignorant to know that this might be something that they want or would benefit from. Some of us have always demanded more I/O bandwidth (even if it meant 4S servers), but typically with a price limit. I do, however, suspect that additional demand could materialize in the form of NVMe slot count. [1] particularly with so many potential employers being categorically cloud-only, they don't even want to know about the underlying hardware or what it's capable of.