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Do hardware research. I mean just look into workstation boards and the CPUs and the drives and all that and see how much it costs to put together yourself. If y
by navjack27 4y ago
Do hardware research. I mean just look into workstation boards and the CPUs and the drives and all that and see how much it costs to put together yourself. If you don't need support and warranty then you might not even need it to come pre-built.
You just need one mega machine from the sounds of it and 40K seems like way more than enough to throw together a system that has a remote management capable mobo and all that compute power and drive storage.
Maybe also ask around at the Level1Techs forum https://forum.level1techs.com/ https://forum.level1techs.com/
> I really don't want to pay $1k for a 4TB dell hdd)
Good thing HDDs do not cost that much at all
Also, it sounds like you want this... For yourself? At your own place? At your own building? Where will this be used and who is paying? That factors into this.
- uniqueuid 4y agoThanks for the tips. I'll buy this for an academic setting, so self-assembly is out of the question unfortunately (procurement rules prevent that for the most part). I was somewhat shocked to see that HDDs and RAM actually carry an insane premium when you get them from large corps - RAM easily costs > $500 per 64gb, which is almost double the market price. But I've also had bad experiences with HP, which seems to limit the selection of RAM sticks you can use to prevent third-party purchases.
- nickphx 4y agoWhat about using a reseller that sells 'refurbished' enterprise rack mounted servers? Years ago I bought quite a few machines from xbyte.com
- uniqueuid 4y agoI'd probably consider that for a personal machine, but procurement rules will probably prevent me from doing that because I need warranty and service contracts.