Nice! That’s additional info based on what I did here as well:
One thing I’ve definitely learned is that extra ram is basically pointless, there’s virtually no benefit. Don’t build any extra RAM into machines that you plan to use for plotting!
I also agree with you that super extra mega fast disks don’t actually help that much:
The difference between a single NVMe and RAID0 of two NVMes was only roughly 12 minutes.
I noticed this when comparing SATA (a measly 6gbps max!) versus NVME runs. I saved one hour, or 13% of overall plot time. That’s not nothing, but it’s not exactly changing the world, either.
It would be interesting to repeat some of your runs for 2 threads as well.