Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why?

Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by junar on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @07:24PM (#23097654)

> $700 24 core Xeons on eBay 2 years ago

Can you clarify? I don't think such a product exists as a single chip at that price point. The Threadripper 3960X costs $1400, and that released less than a year ago.

Edit: Looking up Intel chips on Wikipedia, I think you might be using 12-core/24-thread chips...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)#Xe...

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by fiveguys94 on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @08:38PM (#23098291)

I picked up three Dell R900's for an average of $200 each, with 4x Xeon E7450 and 128GB of ECC RAM. No hyperthreading (2011!), it's 24 real cores.

They're noisy and use lots of power, but you can't argue with the value for money.

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Re:Ask HN: Is your company sticking to on-premise servers? Why? by icedchai on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @09:06PM (#23098492)

I have one similar to this. I don't think it is an R900, but it's an older 1U rack mount. I forget if it's a 12 or 24 core xeon, but it was dirt cheap, came with 72 gigs of RAM, and sounds like a jet engine turning it on. I recently built a Ryzen box with 128 gigs of RAM and it's much quieter...

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