[renewiltord]

No, most people aren’t interested in subcomponent performance, just in total performance. A trivial example is that even a 4-striped U2 NVMe disk array exported over Ethernet can deliver a lot more data than 5 Gbps and store mucho TiB.

[moralestapia]

Thanks for +1 what I just said. So, apparently, it's not just me and my peers who think like this.

[chaoskitty]

That comment didn't +1 what you just said. It basically said that we care about the total, usable throughput. Whether some specific components are capable of more doesn't mean anything unless / until that greather throughput is usable by us.