@Fireduck i guess you're actually quite onto something with trying to make mining more reliant on sequential reads https://www.anandtech.com/print/13759/comparing-adata-sx8200-pro-vs-hp-ex950 Comparing Two 1TB NVMe Drives with Same NAND, Same Controller: XPG SX8200 Pro vs HP EX950

but wouldn't that sequential read strat actually also be quicker in ram?

If you have it in ram you are already CPU limited

But there might be an advantage there

having every page count should do something