The term “commodity hardware” used to mean really crappy gear, but when you look at these numbers, that’s not necessarily the case anymore. You can build yourself quite the army of pizza boxes.

When vendors say, “You can deploy our solution on commodity hardware,” they’re not saying you’re going to get amazing performance with 16GB of RAM and a couple of spinning rusty frisbees. It’s time to reset your expectations about what commodity means.

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Swift is designed to run on commodity hardware. At Rackspace, our storage servers are currently running fairly generic 4U servers with 24 2T SATA drives and 8 cores of processing power.

Commodity hardware running the open source operating system Linux is playing various important roles in the field of high energy physics.

A scalable shared database enables you to scale-out a database using commodity hardware for reporting servers and volumes and to achieve a smooth upgrade path.

Computer hardware that is affordable and easy to obtain. Typically it is a low-performance system that is IBM PC-compatible and is capable of running Microsoft Windows, Linux, or MS-DOS without requiring any special devices or equipment.