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I also was told tofino was looking EOL. Like NUC, dropped from some C suites KPI set and longterm roadmap. I'd love to be wrong, this is just what people said.

by ggm 2y ago

bayindirh 2y ago
However, NUC form factor is more lively than ever before. Maybe someone can grab the language and run for something? Miktrotik guys come into my mind.
- doctorpangloss 2y ago
  It’s complicated. The NUCs had a lot of inevitable catastrophic hardware failures, like NIC ports that would break. Their problem is they were not good.
  - UltraSane 2y ago
    How is a ethernet port breaking "inevitable"?
    - doctorpangloss 2y ago
      100% of the Broadwell NUCs, AFAIK, eventually have the problem, but many were trashed before they did. These issues persisted for years, such as with 10th and 12th generation NUCs. Search "proxmox nuc NIC not working".
      - Twirrim 2y ago
        Broadwell is gonna broadwell. I won't ever trust their NICs ever again. They've been way too much pain with them both personally and professionally. Their firmware is crap quality, and their bugs are just absolutely astoundingly bad. At one job we literally had to fix their firmware for them after several months of back-and-forth, engineers spotted the absurdly obvious bug in minutes of seeing their code.
- luckman212 2y ago
  What's the best "NUC-like" product on the market now? I know ASUS has their lineup of "NUC" that was spun off from Intel. I have used MSI's "Cubi" which was a pretty nice kit. And I know everyone drools over Minisforum stuff (which is expensive but very nicely designed). Any other notable ones?
  - bayindirh 2y ago
    Depends on what you want. Currently my focus is N100 based systems to use as lightweight personal computers and small servers (if you can find fanless versions). I have BeeLink S12 Pro, which I post this comment from, and I like it. However I/O wise, it's not the fastest (x1 NVMe + 2.5" SATA SSD). I also have a GMKTec G3, which has a x2 NVMe and M.2 SATA Slot. I have recently seen a "Minix Z100" fanless, which has x4 NVMe but no SATA, however it has 2.5gbE. Lastly, my parents are using a similar N95 system on Windows 11, and it works pretty nicely for them. All of these systems support 32GB of single channel RAM, but they're plenty fast for simple jobs or simple desktop systems which you won't try to conquer the world. If you have no power/heat/noise/money upper limit, you can get them in more packed configurations, but that's not what I need, actually.
happycube 2y ago
NUC somewhat avoided the google^Wintel graveyard - they sold at least the branding to Asus.
- p_l 2y ago
  NUCs are shifting completely to ASUS who is going to continue working on them and there are some long term commitments (there are industrial variants for example)

I also was told tofino was looking EOL. Like NUC, dropped from some C suites KPI set and longterm roadmap. I'd love to be wrong, this is just what people said.

by ggm 2y ago

I also was told tofino was looking EOL. Like NUC, dropped from some C suites KPI set and longterm roadmap. I'd love to be wrong, this is just what people said.

bayindirh 2y ago

However, NUC form factor is more lively than ever before. Maybe someone can grab the language and run for something? Miktrotik guys come into my mind.

doctorpangloss 2y ago
It’s complicated. The NUCs had a lot of inevitable catastrophic hardware failures, like NIC ports that would break. Their problem is they were not good.
- UltraSane 2y ago
  How is a ethernet port breaking "inevitable"?
  - doctorpangloss 2y ago
    100% of the Broadwell NUCs, AFAIK, eventually have the problem, but many were trashed before they did. These issues persisted for years, such as with 10th and 12th generation NUCs. Search "proxmox nuc NIC not working".
    - Twirrim 2y ago
      Broadwell is gonna broadwell. I won't ever trust their NICs ever again. They've been way too much pain with them both personally and professionally. Their firmware is crap quality, and their bugs are just absolutely astoundingly bad. At one job we literally had to fix their firmware for them after several months of back-and-forth, engineers spotted the absurdly obvious bug in minutes of seeing their code.
luckman212 2y ago
What's the best "NUC-like" product on the market now? I know ASUS has their lineup of "NUC" that was spun off from Intel. I have used MSI's "Cubi" which was a pretty nice kit. And I know everyone drools over Minisforum stuff (which is expensive but very nicely designed). Any other notable ones?
- bayindirh 2y ago
  Depends on what you want. Currently my focus is N100 based systems to use as lightweight personal computers and small servers (if you can find fanless versions). I have BeeLink S12 Pro, which I post this comment from, and I like it. However I/O wise, it's not the fastest (x1 NVMe + 2.5" SATA SSD). I also have a GMKTec G3, which has a x2 NVMe and M.2 SATA Slot. I have recently seen a "Minix Z100" fanless, which has x4 NVMe but no SATA, however it has 2.5gbE. Lastly, my parents are using a similar N95 system on Windows 11, and it works pretty nicely for them. All of these systems support 32GB of single channel RAM, but they're plenty fast for simple jobs or simple desktop systems which you won't try to conquer the world. If you have no power/heat/noise/money upper limit, you can get them in more packed configurations, but that's not what I need, actually.

happycube 2y ago

NUC somewhat avoided the google^Wintel graveyard - they sold at least the branding to Asus.

p_l 2y ago
NUCs are shifting completely to ASUS who is going to continue working on them and there are some long term commitments (there are industrial variants for example)