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> Who has enough money to get a mutli-TB SSD for SOHO?!
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX300-Internal-Solid-State/dp...
I was contemplating a build with 2 of these in a RAID 1 configuration for my next homelab server.
Personally I run a gaming (windows) desktop at home and an always-on UPS-backed homelab server that handles minor ops tasks (mostly backing up side projects and some ETL) + provides dev VMs.
My home office "budget" is ~$2k/year. My gaming/work desktop is ~4 years old, represents ~$2.5k of that budget. Monitors/peripherials/desk/chair generally eats another $2k and are of a similar age. I generally spend ~$2.5k on the dev server. I then usually toss ~$1k into a laptop.
I could easily see someone who purely works from home (rather than 1-2 days a week) operating with a larger budget and genuinely needing a ZFS setup of 2TB SSDs.
Realistically, $2-3k/year is 2-5% of the sort of salaries we see on HN given we make a living at this sort of thing...it isn't surprising people would spend that kind of money to me.
https://hurdlr.com/blog/software-web-developer-tax-deduction...
Keep in mind "business equipment" certainly qualifies for such a dev server so you won't be paying taxes on it if you itemize as well.