Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs
> "and of course it completely ruins the day of people who are trying to have and maintain a spares pool"<p>I used to maintain a distributed system of TV recording servers with hundreds of analog TV tuner cards inside and understand this pain all too well. After years of frustration trying to get these cards and all the different revisions to work together on whatever version of Linux I'd adopted for the system (kernel upgrades were a huge risk), I swore off hardware altogether for future projects. Even though all the devices had the same chipset, I couldn't keep it all working at the same time and it sucked all the time and energy I should have been spending on my actual product.<p>God bless the rise of cloud computing. Seriously.<p>I can't even imagine what it must be like to maintain the amount of hardware they have at AWS or Google. Speaking of which, how the fk does a startup like Digital Ocean do it?