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I kept a close eye on the ARM server market for years waiting for it to happen and bring cheap multi core boxes to the masses. Ultimately, I stopped caring when
by esaym 11y ago
I kept a close eye on the ARM server market for years waiting for it to happen and bring cheap multi core boxes to the masses. Ultimately, I stopped caring when quad core Xeon boxes got down to less than $400 and draw less than 30 watts idle: http://amzn.com/B00FE2G79C http://amzn.com/B00FE2G79C
- skrause 11y agoI still think that 30 watts idle are way too much for at-home equipment. At German electricity prices we're still dealing with $75 a year just for electricity. What I want to see is a reasonably powerful machine that is <5 watts idle (for the board, CPU and RAM) plus the power of the installed hard disks.
- creshal 11y agoRight now you'd need NUC-style nettops for that kind of wattage. I'm not sure the performance qualifies as "reasonably powerful", though…
- creshal 11y agoEntry-level Xeons are ridiculously cheap and powerful nowadays. Our infrastructure went from $5000/server (Netburst era) to $1200 nowadays. And even for smaller purposes, x86 SoCs are getting good, like PCEngines' 6-12W APU boards that serve nicely as routers/firewalls.
- makomk 11y agoOf course, the price and power consumption of those quad core Xeon boxes probably has a lot to do with Intel wanting to kill the ARM server market.
- skrause 11y agoAnd people are still saying that Intel doesn't have any competition anymore because AMD is doing so bad these days...