> We will look back at our meagre 4 GB/s NVMe of today as old junk.
Nah, I don't think so. There is a natural resistance against the newer more expensive machines. The non-tech people largely started looking on the area as always chasing the new shinies, and they are absolutely correct.
I as a programmer, had to replace my gaming PC last year because the old one (which was 11 year old) had its motherboard give up. And I settled for 5600x with 1080 Ti and DDR4 RAM and a 4-7 GB/s NVMe SSD.
Some of the more demanding games struggle because the GPU is old but outside of that that machine is impressively and hugely powerful. Even in those games it still keeps 45-60 FPS just fine. I would want to get a better GPU but honestly, the price jump from a 1080 Ti all the way to the 3070 and beyond is just insane and I can't justify it. I am gaming something like 4h a week, 12h in rare cases, usually about 6h.
I really don't see the draw of all these innovations. Servers, surely, okay, but even for workstations I'd think we are much more in a need of machines with more memory channels -- that the Threadripper Pro stations offer -- and not RAM and SSDs that go into the higher double-digits of GB bandwidth. It's very obvious that most programmer tooling is not making full use of hardware resources. You have to go as low as a Celeron J CPU to actually see programmer tooling monopolize your machine. Even i3 CPUs and old Ryzens are flying.
Unless you are crunching data all day every day then a normal NVMe SSD that tops at 7 GB/s during sequential bursts but is otherwise working stably at 2 GB/s, is good enough and then some more.
Nah, I don't think so. There is a natural resistance against the newer more expensive machines. The non-tech people largely started looking on the area as always chasing the new shinies, and they are absolutely correct.
I as a programmer, had to replace my gaming PC last year because the old one (which was 11 year old) had its motherboard give up. And I settled for 5600x with 1080 Ti and DDR4 RAM and a 4-7 GB/s NVMe SSD.
Some of the more demanding games struggle because the GPU is old but outside of that that machine is impressively and hugely powerful. Even in those games it still keeps 45-60 FPS just fine. I would want to get a better GPU but honestly, the price jump from a 1080 Ti all the way to the 3070 and beyond is just insane and I can't justify it. I am gaming something like 4h a week, 12h in rare cases, usually about 6h.
I really don't see the draw of all these innovations. Servers, surely, okay, but even for workstations I'd think we are much more in a need of machines with more memory channels -- that the Threadripper Pro stations offer -- and not RAM and SSDs that go into the higher double-digits of GB bandwidth. It's very obvious that most programmer tooling is not making full use of hardware resources. You have to go as low as a Celeron J CPU to actually see programmer tooling monopolize your machine. Even i3 CPUs and old Ryzens are flying.
Unless you are crunching data all day every day then a normal NVMe SSD that tops at 7 GB/s during sequential bursts but is otherwise working stably at 2 GB/s, is good enough and then some more.