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  • We stream DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash (518 GB, 4-bit) from NVMe on a 128 GB M5 Max, because it doesn't fit in RAM.

                            prompt processing      steady decode
        upstream, internal       16.23                 10.59
        ours, internal only      28.04  1.73x          14.38  1.36x
        ours, +1 external        36.88  2.27x          16.05  1.52x
        ours, +2 external        43.62  2.69x          17.38  1.64x
    
      The first fork row is the one that matters: same single internal SSD, no replicas, no enclosures.

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