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A 2u asus with 2 xeon silver, 64gb ram and 4 x 2080ti is maybe us$15k? We'll use it for as long as its producing useful output. Lets say 5 years? Probably a li
by lazylizard 6y ago
A 2u asus with 2 xeon silver, 64gb ram and 4 x 2080ti is maybe us$15k?
We'll use it for as long as its producing useful output. Lets say 5 years? Probably a little longer?
A 60bay 4u western digital with 14tb drives is under us$50k?
definitely got a dell md1280+1u server with 70x10tb 2yrs ago for under us$50k. Fully populated the following year..
A 2u dell with maybe 20 cores n 128gb ram each should cost less than us$10k.
And we just got 4 or 5 dell switches with 48x10g ports for 50-70k? I'm not sure.
What's the equivalent in the cloud?
- aspyct 6y agoAre you keeping tabs on the cost of the building and associated security? Video cameras, locks... Also the manpower needed to install and maintain that equipment. Similarly, your 70*10tb tells nothing. What's the redundancy on that, how much of that space did you lose to it, where do you store your backups and at what cost? As for networking, having those switches is nice, but you still need your internet connection if you're serving anything online from this.
- lazylizard 6y agoThe manpower to run that stuff is already doing desktop support. Storage is usually a stripe of 10 disks in raidz2 + 2 spares. Then we do a nightly zfs send.. The internet connection for the hosting is 100mbps. The users share 1gbps of internet. We pay only for hardware. Rent and utilities. And the internet connections. Everything else we can do it ourselves. I mean. Seriously. Whats the cost of running 100 x 4 x 2080ti in the cloud for a year? Or storing 500tb(1 instance only,no redundancy) ?
- bluedino 6y agoSo service contracts on any of those?
- lazylizard 6y agoWhat service contracts? Only hardware warranties n extended hardware warranties..