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Ha! But they delivered that much value (or more), so the market supported the price until supply flooded. We could do worse for a transformative technology ran
by ethbr0 4y ago
Ha! But they delivered that much value (or more), so the market supported the price until supply flooded.
We could do worse for a transformative technology ranking metric than "How overpriced was this when first released?" (significant look at Nvidia cards)
- jacquesm 4y agoI had a bunch of workloads that quite literally got cut down to about 15% or so of the original runtime (a cluster compressing a whole archive of CDs for a large broadcaster) so I happily paid up. But still... $1000 / port!! And here I have sitting next to me a 48 port gigabit switch that cost 15% of what that 100 megabit switch cost in 1996 or so. Iirc it was one of the first D-link products I bought, it definitely wasn't great (it ran pretty hot) but it worked quite well enough. Amazing progress.
- bombcar 4y agoAnd you can get switches for less than $25 per 10gb port now. Of course the jump from 10mb hub to 100mb switch was much larger than any of the later jumps, just because of the reduced noise.