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> The workstation has fast 2TB NVMe and 64gb of ram, 16 cores and a RTX GPU. > $60/yr vs thousands of $ upfront for a comparable desktop or notebook machine.
by ctvo 3y ago
> The workstation has fast 2TB NVMe and 64gb of ram, 16 cores and a RTX GPU.
> $60/yr vs thousands of $ upfront for a comparable desktop or notebook machine.
I don't think we're talking about the same things here.
- fswd 3y agoI paid $5000 for the workstation (2019) and upgraded to NVMe later, and I pay $0 for the datacenter because I have referred clients to their business and established a relationship over the years. Because when people find out how much cheaper it is to skip the cloud, they switch but don't know where to go. I could upgrade to dual 2.5 GigE but I have nothing that needs that much bandwidth. I can download 30gb from hugging face in a few minutes which doesn't bother me. The DC is about to onboard another client of mine, a startup that ran on AWS credits for 9 months. They are upgrading to a 64 core 2TB ram box that was an extra the DC had, for $3500, which will probably go into the rack next to mine.