I agree on decentralisation for cheaper prices on RAM/IO/CPU. But there's a catch within these types of industries... the adoption of new hardware by the community will always be biased by extreme configurations falling in the hands of who can afford them. The speed of an "Optane" will not matter much in a distributed environment if you can buy 20-30 disks with the same amount. Plus with conventional disk (rotary) technology, you will get so much more capacity, that in long term kills any SSD. Maybe in a few 10 years, things will start changing... No doubt that SSD revolutionise the IO/s world, but in terms of decentralised storage... that is not a must have in my opinion.

Although in HPC (High Performance Computing), these things are AMAZING assets and a must have for sure... but simply due the importance of latency at those areas! Low latency is a key player if you want to bring performance up on specific synchronous workloads.

I am eager to try EOS.IO with some real world research codes... going to be an amazing step in humankind!