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The $750 is just for the board. Four SFP+ ports, some onboard SATA ports, an open PCIe 3.0 x8 port and a 16-core Cortex A72 CPU on a mini-itx compatible board i
by snuxoll 6y ago
The $750 is just for the board. Four SFP+ ports, some onboard SATA ports, an open PCIe 3.0 x8 port and a 16-core Cortex A72 CPU on a mini-itx compatible board is still a decent price given it's not a mass-market product. Hell, development kits for many ARM SOCs cost more than that for way less.
That said, you are absolutely correct that rackmount equipment is expensive by it's form-factor - but given this is a mini-itx board clearly not designed for use in a rackmounted chassis (given clearance for CPU cooling and orientation of the memory modules) it's not a factor here.