[Discuss] Raspberry PI[4,5] as infrastructure?

[John Abreau]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 9:40 AM <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> .....
> How much does each of those Xeon processors cost? $5K? How much is the
> RAM? How much is the server? How much power does it consume?
> ....
>

If you're buying them brand-new, they can be pricey. However, I've had
great luck over the years finding high-end SuperMicro servers on eBay,
often with four hexacore or octacore Xeon CPUs, for $100 to $200, and all I
needed to add to them were one or two pairs of hard drives that I
configured as RAID1. The largest RAM config in a system I actually
purchased was 48 GB, but I could probably have found servers with
significantly more RAM for far less than $5K.

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