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Main thing I can think of is game drive for consoles. Games load a lot faster from SSDs but you don't need high sustained speed. Mostly read-only so QLC is fine.
I GUESS just because affordable 8tb QLC M.2 SSDs aren't really a thing, but it still sounds mad stupid to me compared to using a 4tb QLC M.2 SSD like Crucial P3 which are fuck cheap. Or even step up to a Teamgroup MP34 4tb.
How many fucking console games do people own? If you have enough to fill up a 4tb I'd say you should have bought a PC awhile ago.
Cost is not prohibitive to everyone. Console owners are often not the type to buy an internal SSD and put it in an enclosure either. And a few TB is easy to fill up with games steadily reaching 200 GB nowadays. It's not for me, but I can see who might want it.