It's a great concept but I think it would cross the line from 'very slow' to 'so slow it's unusable' at this size. Even if we say you have an NVME SSD that does 7GB/s reads, that's dramatically slower than being able to hold the whole thing in DRAM. Like the difference between 1.3 tok/s in RAM vs 0.1 tok/s with a colibri-like method.

edit: the results I have seen from people trying colibri with fast consumer grade PCI-E 4.0 NVME SSD are 0.1 tok/s on models that are <700B in size, things that are well under 800GB on disk. With something that's 3T in size it'll probably be a lot slower than hat.

Won't the answer (even for a pretty basic message like "hi") at SSD speeds take like a _entire week_ to _start showing useful output?_ (attempting to do 22k average claude code system prompt + 32k thinking tokens thru 0.1t/s throughput)