From a Moore's Law perspective I'd like to see a true cost of ownership over time, as most infra goes obsolete in 18-24 months.
Public clouds, like AWS, have cut their storage costs by more than 50% since Dropbox built their own infra in 2015.
Public clouds, like AWS, have cut their storage costs by more than 50% since Dropbox built their own infra in 2015.
The last time I ran physical infra, we had sever racks that I'd originally bought, running in production 5+ years later.
Once you're past the depreciation schedule, they are basically free except for power and space. Yeah, at some point and scale, it can make sense to get new gear that is more power and space efficient to pack more into the same power and cooling budget.
AWS still lets me launch c1-c6 instance types. So they still have the older generations sticking around. Yeah, the newer ones are usually more cost effective, but you do have to do work to migrate to them.