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$141 for 128GB ram + 2x 2TB NVMe SSD, and a very fine 16 core chip with gobs of cache. This is a pretty solid offering. If you get a 1 year up front price reser
by rektide 4y ago
$141 for 128GB ram + 2x 2TB NVMe SSD, and a very fine 16 core chip with gobs of cache. This is a pretty solid offering.
If you get a 1 year up front price reserve instance (lot of caveats there), a aws m5ad.2xlarge is $176/mo. 32GiB, 8vCPU, and a 300GB NVMe ssd on a 2019 era Epyc. That's the best offer I could find from AWS for something near that price point. Having 4x the RAM, way more SSD space, and 2x the cores, on a dedicated machine sounds great. And it makes sense as an offering, is a reasonable offer, attainable.
Hopefully these come to more than the 1 data-center! :) Hopefully we see more competitors offering great stuff like this. Wild that this easily a sub $2000 box, $700 cpu, $200 ram, couple hundred for ssd and mobo and case.
- Scaevolus 4y agoThe 7950X is probably close to 40 vCPUs in terms of total compute power (32 threads, big cache, higher frequency than datacenter chips).
- alberth 4y agoLove the price. Arguably unbeatable. Still shocked after more than a decade, Economics 101 hasn’t kicked in and put more downward pricing pressure on the major cloud providers.
- hknmtt 4y agoself-imposed vendor lock-in