[–] 9 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

If they sold it a $400 they'd be at a loss, at $300 they would crash the desktop market. People would by it for general desktop use. Similar how so many PS2 were bought just because it was the cheapest DVD player and didn't buy games.

Hell, there was a supercomputers built with PS3 clusters. Maybe that explains why the Steam Machine only has a 1Gbps nic...

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    I'm most surprised that they removed SMART tooling. My primary pool is still spinning rust for the foreseeable further. And I just retired a drive based on SMART testing and TrueNAS's alerting.

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