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  • June 7, 2018 at 7:26 am

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    roger.plowman - Thursday, June 7, 2018 6:48 AM

    Can you honestly say that large monthly cloud bills are better than the initial large expense of hardware? Hardware costs once, monthly subscription (and unexpectedly large charges) are an eternal void that can never be satisfied.

    I think in this case, the way business tends to look at it is, they no longer need to pay the people who were there to support that hardware, and can either release them, or move them to another part of the company.  Plus, one advantage touted for "cloud" systems is you can configure the system to use the minimum needed, then when more power is needed (say, end of quarter reporting) add capacity, rather than having to buy hardware with the capacity for the end of quarter, but that capacity will spend most of the year essentially idling.

    Ralph Hightower - Thursday, June 7, 2018 6:50 AM

    Enterprise vs consumer grade SSD is something that I'll consider. My wife bought me a new PC a few months ago and after I installed Microsoft Office, Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, and a few necessary utilities, I don't have room to install Visual Studio. I need to double or quadruple the system SSD. I tend to keep my personal PC for a long while, so enterprise grade is probably the better choice for me.

    To be honest, even with a fairly busy home system, you'll likely be OK with a regular consumer-grade drive.