Could RAM and SSD become the bottleneck as next-gen n-gram models offload to storage?
accelerate_to_asi · reddit · 2026-09-24
A Reddit poster asks whether offloading knowledge to SSD/RAM in next-gen n-gram models, freeing VRAM, simply shifts the bottleneck to memory and storage — estimating even small 27B-class models could need hundreds of GB RAM or terabytes of storage, noting Qwen3.8 Flash Next's 2-bit quantization is still larger than Qwen3.8 27B at 4-bit. The post invites discussion of compute-storage trade-offs for local deployment.
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