Don’t buy books/video/music on physical media unless it’s hard/impossible to get a digital version. But also don’t rely on IP subscription services either. The Cloud is great as part of a backup strategy: but not as an exclusive service that could gate your access to your content.

Digital storage is great because it can hold anything: books, shows, games, whatever. And it can be easily copied, and sent around the world. Have some space you own: redundant and automatically backed-up to a Cloud service… then enjoy it for years. It will feed your ebook readers and media players and homelab devices for a long time, and take up almost no space.

A modern multicore x64 with half that RAM would run any workload that cluster could do… faster (carved into a handful of containers or VMs if you needed isolation).

It’s a cool project, for fun! It would be a horrible way to do any useful work though. Just the thought of wiring it all up makes me shudder…