A Reality Check on DeepSeek's Distributed File System Benchmarks

3FS isn't quite matching its own hype. Yes, it boasts a flashy 8 TB/s peak throughput, but pesky network bottlenecks throttle usage to roughly 73% of its theoretical greatness. Efficiency’s hiding somewhere, laughing. A dig into GraySort shows storage sulking on the sidelines, perhaps tripped up by CRAQ overhead. Meanwhile, those 70KB KV caches stumble—eating up 4.69% of pricey SSD space and utterly failing the latency test.