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by bubblethink 44 days ago
Isn't this massively overpriced? What does this buy you over a supermicro box running ubuntu?
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theatrus2 44 days ago
Have you priced a Supermicro box with 16 bays and SAS running Ubuntu?
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bubblethink 44 days ago
I have, in pre-COVID days, though. The total bill including a skylake xeon E3-1285 v6 CPU, 64 GB ECC RAM, and the supermicro X11 board + chassis (https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/archive/chassis/SC836...) was under $1k.
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ikiris 43 days ago
The world changed. Massively. Reprice everything you're benchmarking pre covid.
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bubblethink 43 days ago
Yes I know, but not by 4x. You can buy a lot of real compute for $4k, not an arm box with 16 disk bays.
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ikiris 41 days ago
Reread my comment and process it.
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stewartadam 44 days ago
The current-gen 3U SuperChassis alone is $1200USD.
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izacus 44 days ago
Try again with 2026 RAM prices.
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