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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I mostly agree, and did the same with my second gen lab build - instead of shiny new NUCs like I had used round 1, I bought old off lease Dell Xeon boxes. SO MANY PROS -

Got them up to 14c/28t each
They can take GPUs and actually do heavy transcoding/ML work
They can take up to like, 128GB of memory, which is GREAT when they're all hypervisors

The downsides can't be denied though -

Even without the GPUs and beefed up CPUs, they are power hogs - the CPU alone uses more than an ENTIRE NUC
They run HOT
They run LOUD

The same holds true for off-lease SFF stuff, Lenovo and the likes ...

So while reuse/repurpose is absolutely of the utmost importance, no question - when it comes to technology and how quickly it advances and miniaturizes, a thorough and logical pros/cons list is often required.

I'd add another option though - if you do need what a Pi brings to the table - do you really need a shiny new Pi 5? Is it possible a used Pi 3 or Pi 4 would do the trick, and check the reuse box?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

RPis aren't energy efficient either. Any situation where you are thinking of putting more than one of them in a cluster you should just buy mini PCs instead.

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