The Western Digital WD Black SN850 Review: A Fast PCIe 4.0 SSD
I wonder if there will come a cloud provider that solely uses consumer grade compute, local storage, and internal networking, with some kick ass network connectivity and steal the cloud provider show?!<p>Most applications that run on AWS and GCP don’t really need that premium Xeon&#x2F;EPYC CPUs, enterprise-grade storage that is 10X the cost of consumer grade drives. Of course, those that do may justify the premium cost. But, the rest that just runs a few web servers behind a load balancer and non-critical services could use stuff on the cheap...<p>Say cheaper digitalocean built upon bare metal consumer grade hardware - Ryzen CPU, consumer grade memory, this Local NVMe storage, and the onboard network card... may be I am crazy to think that’s enough.<p>Heck such hardware may even perform better than several enterprise grade VMs provided by cloud providers.