Is Arm ready for server dominance?

Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by NicoJuicy on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:40PM (#21715677)

On black Friday, I bought a AMD 2600, 64 gb ram and 256 SSD + 6 TB 7200. And a 8 gb GPU.

I paid 1000€, 140€ shipping

Planning to do something similar for a 8 node rpi 4 cluster, depending the results ( 600€ because of PoE)

I'm pretty sure I will come out insanely more cheaper to run my microservice experiments with docker then hosting it in the cloud.

I don't care/talk about ARM currently. Where I work they will go for performance / € in the cloud.

Not many people care about ARM in the cloud. I don't know why the topic of coming from.

Or what I'm missing?

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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by imtringued on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:42PM (#21718309)

What made you skimp on the SSD? I bought a 512GB SSD for 66€ last year and now the newer equivalent model sells for 57€.

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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by kabdib on Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:37PM (#21719079)

Hmmm, at those prices I would worry about the quality of the SSD. (I've learned to trust a few brands, learned to avoid a few others, the hard way. The 512GB SSDs I'd consider purchasing go for 2X-4X your mentioned cost).

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Re:Is Arm ready for server dominance? by ansible on Friday December 06, 2019 @03:41AM (#21720133)

If you're feeling adventurous, you could try running bcache to speed up HDD access with the SSD.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bcache

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