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Most people who I know work with tech and can afford expensive hardware if it makes sense. I would love to be able to use 2x64 GiB RAM with a SBC and would pay

Most people who I know work with tech and can afford expensive hardware if it makes sense. I would love to be able to use 2x64 GiB RAM with a SBC and would pay for this.

rcoder 6y ago
How would you power and cool such a beast? What kind of workloads would benefit from that much RAM while running happily on a CPU that fits on a typical SBC layout? If you want a tiny workstation-class system, there are entirely decent mini ITX board you can stuff a recent AMD or Intel chip and tons of RAM into. You'll need a desktop-class cooling system and power supply, though, and it'll still have the footprint of 6-8 of these board, and probably about 15x the total volume and power consumption.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  And, if you really want an ARM to play with, you can pick an Ampere eMag workstation.
- mech422 6y ago
  the H2s in my prior comment are fanless and run off 14V to 20V(?) DC - I bought a 400W power supply from mouser(?) and figure that should power more machines then I'll ever need. (Power supply is way overkill, not sure why I got one so big :-P )
magicalhippo 6y ago
Sounds like you'd want something more like this[1]. [1]: http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=935 http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_I...
- mech422 6y ago
  These(1) look interesting too, but they always seem to be out of stock. They were available in the $150 to $175 range for a while, but its dried up. With 2 NVME and 2 SSD, it might make for a nice lil home file server. 1: http://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/ http://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/
  - 3np 6y ago
    A300 is very popular as a mini home server. Only catch is (AFAIU, have not tried yet) it wants a GPU to boot at all, so you’ll either have to put in an APU (eg 3200G/3400G) or a discrete GPU. X300 is the successor BTW.
    - mech422 6y ago
      >it wants a GPU to boot at all Oh? I hadn't heard that. Though to be honest, its a bit 'big' for my needs so I haven't looked too hard. Oddly enough - Noise is becoming my primary driver, not cpu or ram. So fanless designs really appeal
hobby-coder-guy 6y ago
Who cares about most people you know?
mech422 6y ago
I say this everytime SBC's come up: ODroid H2's (1) They're not cheap - about $250 kitted out with 16G RAM and a cheap 250G SSD/M2. But you get full 64 bit linux/windows, dual ethernet, a nice selection of IO ports. And all the low power/small form factor goodness. Bonus - fanless and totally silent when used with SSD. 1: https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h2 https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h2

Most people who I know work with tech and can afford expensive hardware if it makes sense. I would love to be able to use 2x64 GiB RAM with a SBC and would pay for this.

rcoder 6y ago

How would you power and cool such a beast? What kind of workloads would benefit from that much RAM while running happily on a CPU that fits on a typical SBC layout? If you want a tiny workstation-class system, there are entirely decent mini ITX board you can stuff a recent AMD or Intel chip and tons of RAM into. You'll need a desktop-class cooling system and power supply, though, and it'll still have the footprint of 6-8 of these board, and probably about 15x the total volume and power consumption.

rbanffy 6y ago
And, if you really want an ARM to play with, you can pick an Ampere eMag workstation.
mech422 6y ago
the H2s in my prior comment are fanless and run off 14V to 20V(?) DC - I bought a 400W power supply from mouser(?) and figure that should power more machines then I'll ever need. (Power supply is way overkill, not sure why I got one so big :-P )

magicalhippo 6y ago

Sounds like you'd want something more like this[1]. [1]: http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_ID=935 http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us/mb/introduction.php?S_I...

mech422 6y ago
These(1) look interesting too, but they always seem to be out of stock. They were available in the $150 to $175 range for a while, but its dried up. With 2 NVME and 2 SSD, it might make for a nice lil home file server. 1: http://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/ http://www.asrock.com/nettop/AMD/DeskMini%20A300%20Series/
- 3np 6y ago
  A300 is very popular as a mini home server. Only catch is (AFAIU, have not tried yet) it wants a GPU to boot at all, so you’ll either have to put in an APU (eg 3200G/3400G) or a discrete GPU. X300 is the successor BTW.
  - mech422 6y ago
    >it wants a GPU to boot at all Oh? I hadn't heard that. Though to be honest, its a bit 'big' for my needs so I haven't looked too hard. Oddly enough - Noise is becoming my primary driver, not cpu or ram. So fanless designs really appeal

hobby-coder-guy 6y ago

Who cares about most people you know?

mech422 6y ago

I say this everytime SBC's come up: ODroid H2's (1) They're not cheap - about $250 kitted out with 16G RAM and a cheap 250G SSD/M2. But you get full 64 bit linux/windows, dual ethernet, a nice selection of IO ports. And all the low power/small form factor goodness. Bonus - fanless and totally silent when used with SSD. 1: https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h2 https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h2