Hardware wise, kinda depending on the characteristics of the app. Network wise, I've seen this tried. Commercial internet, even if it is symmetrical 1Gibps has

Hardware wise, kinda depending on the characteristics of the app. Network wise, I've seen this tried. Commercial internet, even if it is symmetrical 1Gibps has nearly no SLA tied to it and is subject to traffic shaping. Not only could you be turned off at the companies whim if you began to saturate the points up to your demarcation point, but they could also traffic shape you for a time (or indefinitely). This all largely has to do with how internet telephone companies and cable companies categorize and pool traffic in their regions up to backbones. Also save for the fact that commodity hardware lacks a lot of the hardware safeties a server does. For instance, your m.2 under sustained load would not perform at the same rate that an enterprise server hard drive can; we're talking on an order of 180MiB/s vs 550MiB/s per drive. Once the m.2's cache is exhausted it will be comparable to a spinning disk in performance.