Jan Wildeboer 😷

Observation: more and more companies are adding a year of use (from typically 36 months to now 48 months) to their corporate servers/laptops to keep the exploding hardware costs for renewal under control. Most machines come with max 36 months of (onsite) warranty, so they accept the risk of being 12 months out of warranty.

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Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Feb 23
I for one am happy that I finished my hardware update cycle well before the prices started to rise and will not need new RAM, NVME, spinning hard drives or a new laptop for at least the next 4 years.
Show threadJoe BrockmeierFeb 23

@jwildeboer big same. If prices return to Earth in 2-3 years, it’ll be about time for me to think about refreshing my main system. Or maybe not. It’s a Core i7 13th gen with 64GB RAM and 4TB nvme. If none of the components fail (knocks on wood) it’ll still be perfectly serviceable for Linux desktop use for several more years.

I’m glad I’m not a gamer into the latest GPU thing. My pockets just aren’t that deep anymore.

Show threadNeal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) Feb 23
@jzb @jwildeboer I regret not buying new hard drives last year. I panic-bought everything else because of the tariff scare. 😦
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Feb 23
@neal I kind of panic-bought 2x4TB and 2x8TB spinning drives last year when I noticed the drives in my NAS had just happily crossed their 10 year anniversary. Fun fact: they still run with zero problems and completely clean SMART state. Impressive. @jzb
Show threadRyan PetersFeb 23
@jwildeboer here I am happily trying out linux distros on my old-ass PCs that can't fathom running Windows 11 on them
Show threadCuboci 🏳️‍🌈   Feb 24
@jwildeboer Assuming prices go down again in the future 😬
Show threadthe elder seaFeb 23

@jwildeboer What a wonderful world they're building. Everything is breaking all at once.

Interesting times indeed.

Show threadDJ-BauerFeb 23
@jwildeboer
That is pretty cool.
I wonder if OEMs like Dell also will add an extra year to their partner support terms of 5years.
Afaik they are willing to support you as long as you pay :P
Show threadRecovered ExpertFeb 24

@jwildeboer I’ve build a new home NAS as well as a office server last year.

What I didn’t get around to was replacing the (almost 10y) old hardware of my two collocated servers and expanding their storage for some additional new use cases. Planned to do that this year. Now I’m “praying” that there won’t be any HW failures for a while, Storage in particular.🤞