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"How much does a server cost?" used to have a boring answer. In 2026 it has a moving one: a global memory shortage roughly doubled server DRAM prices in a single quarter, Dell and Lenovo have each raised list prices twice since December while HPE rewrote its terms so a price ca … read more

Cloud vs on-premise is usually argued with adjectives. This guide argues it with a receipt. We price one mainstream AWS instance against the equivalent refurbished Dell PowerEdge from our own catalog, add the real monthly costs of ownership — electricity at the current na … read more

SAS vs SATA vs NVMe is the first decision that shapes a server's storage: how fast each drive is, how many fit behind one controller, and what the tier costs per terabyte. SATA is the cheap, universal 6 Gb/s interface. SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is the 12 Gb/s enterpr … read more

On January 12, 2027, Microsoft ends extended support for Windows Server 2016. No more security updates, no more patches, no more support cases — for an operating system that still runs a very large installed base of Active Directory domains, file servers, and Hyper-V host … read more

The Dell PowerEdge R750 has hit the point in its lifecycle every refurbished-hardware buyer waits for: enterprises that deployed it new in 2021–2022 are starting to refresh, secondary-market supply is climbing, and prices have settled well below what the platform cost eve … read more

If you are shopping for a used GPU server for AI inference, 2026 is a strong buying window. As hyperscalers and AI labs refresh their fleets for Blackwell-generation hardware, more previous-generation enterprise GPUs — NVIDIA L40S, A100, and H100 — are flowing into … read more

Buying a server in 2026 is a different decision than it was even two years ago. New enterprise hardware is caught in one of the sharpest component price runs in years — server RDIMM prices roughly doubled over the past year as the AI buildout pulled DRAM capacity toward h … read more