On my 2 years old ThinkPad laptop SSD is faster than lz4. On a fat EC2 server lz4 is faster. So one really has to test a particular config.

Yeah, I'm not surprised the PCIe 5.0 transfer speeds matched with top tier SSD chips win that race.

It still bothers me that the fastest most performant computer I have access to is almost always my laptop, and that by a considerable margin.

Someone should do some lz4 vs. ssd benchmarks across hardware to make my argument more solid and the boundaries clear.