[dr_zoidberg]

Digital forensics is a situation where you need extreme IO but you aren't really writing all that much -- it's mostly searches over the forensic copy of computers you are analizing.

As for write speed, you don't really need it unless you're doing file/data recovery, but even then you can just make indexes to the disk image.

AFAIK, very few (if none) are using SCM in their forensic expert workstations, so I can't really tell if you'd saturate the storage capacity or the bandwidth. But in digital forensics, NVMe's have been a must for a while, so this would definitely help.