[johndough]

You can run it on consumer grade hardware right now, but it will be rather slow. NVMe SSDs these days have a read speed of 7 GB/s (EDIT: or even faster than that! Thank you @hedgehog for the update), so it will give you one token roughly every three seconds while crunching through the 32 billion active parameters, which are natively quantized to 4 bit each. If you want to run it faster, you have to spend more money.

Some people in the localllama subreddit have built systems which run large models at more decent speeds: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/

[hedgehog]

High end consumer SSDs can do closer to 15 GB/s, though only with PCI-e gen 5. On a motherboard with two m.2 slots that's potentially around 30GB/s from disk. Edit: How fast everything is depends on how much data needs to get loaded from disk which is not always everything on MoE models.

[greenavocado]

Would RAID zero help here?