I'd say hardware is commodity when it's purchased to maximize the performance-to-price ratio, as opposed to just going for optimum performance, which will always cost a boat-load.
E.g. a 15000 RPM SAS drive is not commodity, but a 7200RPM SATA drive is. On 12 February 2015 at 17:45, Adaryl Wakefield <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anybody have a good definition of commodity hardware? I'm having a hard > time explaining it to people. I have no idea when a piece of HW is > "commodity" or whatever the opposite of commodity is. > > B.
