Richard wrote:
I seem to recall some discussions of "ownership
humps" over the
lifetime of equipment.
Thoughts?
Depreciation of equipment by companies, or equipment coming off lease.
The wave is a company dumps the gear when it's worth zero on the books.
That is when the first tier brokers come in. The guys that come in when
a company goes bankrupt and cleans out the place is the tail. This is
normally a 5-10 year wave. I've observed this pretty consistently in the
valley since I've been out here (mid 80's).
The current glut is early '00s Opteron servers. You can follow this on
what is going cheap on eBay as well.
Note that we are twenty years out now from the 'classicmp' wave. What shows
up from that is when a packrat empties out his garage.