hardware commodities definition
You may have heard the term âcommodity hardwareâ thrown around when describing solutions like Redis, Elasticsearch, or kCuraâs new Data Grid. Commodity hardware refers to cheap, standardized servers that are easy to buy off the shelf from any vendor. Hereâs a typical example of a 2u, 2CPU commodity hardware server: 1  Supermicro SYS-1028R-TDW 1U rack server. 2  Two Xeon E5-2600 v3 CPU sockets. 3  16 RAM slots, holding up to 1TB RAM.  8 2.5â³ hot-swap SATA 3 drive 1  bays. 2 PCI-E 3.0 x16 full height half length slots.  $900 at NewEgg.