Something I didn't quite realise with the rise of "The Cloud"; many businesses aren't reselling their 3-5 year old Servers.<p>That notion only just hit me with the title, and I'm a little sad about it to be honest.
That's super interesting, enjoyed reading it.<p>I am pondering of getting a good future-proof server Soon™ but I have my doubts about how cheap (or awfully expensive) this is going to be so I will likely settle for a refurbished Xeon E5 workstation (since I'd like less noise and the ability to cram it full of HDDs/SSDs).<p>I wonder if the coming of this new-age SSDs will herald a price drop in the classic 2.5" SSDs? I don't believe so because they will be viable for a long time in the future still but I am curious to hear other people's perspective?<p>What do you guys and girls think?
Really looking forward to reasonably priced ARM servers with modular/beefy RAM. I don't get the trend of everyone running RPi clusters with the tiny amount of RAM they have, how do you use that for anything serious?
Cant wait for all of those to arrive. We have a sort of stagnation in the past 4-5 years and only only just started moving again. Network, Storage and Compute.<p>For consumer I really hope we will get 5GBASE-T. Even if it is just one port on the Router would be better than 1Gbps port.