PCIev3 vs v4

PCIe v3 vs v4

PCIev3 Speed Per lane: 1GB/s unidirectional PCIev3 Max unidirectional speed: 16GB/s

PCIev4 Speed per lane: 2GB/s unidirectional PCIev4 Max unidirectional speed: 32GB/s

Samsung NF1 Drive

According to this article a single NF1 drive runs at 3,000MB/s sequential read speed and a 1900 MB/s sequential write speed.

Xeon Second Gen Scalable Procs

According to this article a second gen xeon proc provides 48 PCIe v3 lanes. Two procs would mean 96.

This means that a 2 proc server with these chips could theoretically run up to 96GB/s unidirectional speed.

96-36 = 60

64

SuperMicro 1029P-NMR36L

Dual socket Xeon gen 2 procs with space for 32 hot-swap pci-e3 nf1 drives plus 4 SATA 3 M.2 drive bays.

In a scenario where only drives were in the box and under theoretical perfect conditions, you could see a 96GB/s read speed. (Bascially impossible you'd ever actually see that)