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It seems to be setting price records with $750. Ugh. I mean, I get the reasons, but I'd probably rather build a cluster of 8GB RPi4's. For $750, it better be th
by jhgb 5y ago
It seems to be setting price records with $750. Ugh. I mean, I get the reasons, but I'd probably rather build a cluster of 8GB RPi4's. For $750, it better be that X1/N1.
- accountofme 5y agoThis also supports ecc memory...
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- joezydeco 5y agoAnd doesn't need to boot off of SD cards.
- rbanffy 5y agoAnd doesn't keep important files on SD cards...
- jhgb 5y agoEverything boots off of something. Even netboot needs firmware which is on some kind of flash memory anyway.
- joezydeco 5y agoSome things are more reliable and fail safe than others. SD would not rank high on that list and that's not even talking about the cheap mechanical connector involved.
- jhgb 5y agoSo do Ryzens, for much less money per unit of performance.
- rbanffy 5y agoWe discussed a couple options in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299204 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28299204 Unfortunately, having 4 4-core nodes will not make Slack or Chrome any faster. Unless you run each on a separate node and pipe the X output to your node.