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Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] by dragontamer on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:42PM (#28586271)
https://www.thinkmate.com/system/a+-server-1114s-wtrt

For a EPYC 7502P 32-core / 256GB RAM / 2x Mellanox Connect-X 6 dual-nic, I'm seeing $10,000.

Then comes the 18x SSD drives, lol, plus the cards that can actually hold all of that. So the bulk of the price is SSD+associated hardware (HBA??). The CPU/RAM/Interface is actually really cheap, based on just some price-shopping I did.

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Re:Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] by zamadatix on Sunday September 19, 2021 @02:14PM (#28586558)
The WD SN720 is an NVMe SSD so there are no HBAs involved it just plugs into the (many) PCIe lanes the Epyc CPU provides. CDW gives an instant anonymous buyer web price of ~$11,000.00 for all 18.
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