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What does this guy need dual xeons, 128gb ram and 900w PS for? From his site, it looks like he does powerpoints and video conferences. I understand the monito
by jugg1es 6y ago
What does this guy need dual xeons, 128gb ram and 900w PS for? From his site, it looks like he does powerpoints and video conferences. I understand the monitors but the rest is totally overkill, even if its for a tax break. If he wants reliability, he's better off buying 2 identical machines for redundancy and using a SAN so he can switch machines if one breaks. It would cost more and therefore be a bigger write-off.
- jayd16 6y agoMaybe just stealth Lenovo marketing.
- fearoffish 6y agoAnalysing data dumps for https://haveibeenpwned.com https://haveibeenpwned.com is one of the data intensive things he’ll do. That’ll suck the life out of the computer.
- war1025 6y agoFrom the website [1]: > Fortunately, today's modern cloud services like Microsoft Azure make it possible to do this without breaking the bank! So I'd guess it's not for that. [1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/About https://haveibeenpwned.com/About
- pmh 6y agoIn the post, but easy to miss: >I do a lot of data processing in SQL Server which can be really memory intensive (no, the cloud is not always the solution to this, I've got a draft blog post on that) Add to that: video/photo editing, live-streaming, development, and general purpose usage, and it's not an unreasonable setup.
- notatoad 6y agoseems like the sort of thing that would be better suited to an AWS instance (or azure, if you're a regional director at microsoft) rather than running a crazy power-hungry computer as your primary workstation.
- simcop2387 6y agoHe may very well have it locally for better security when doing some of tne analysis and other work for getting those dumps.