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    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    I don't get this; a Pi isn't even in the same conversation as an old rackmount server you can get for free. You couldn't stuff half the compute, ram and storage into a Pi or a dozen Pis for 10X the cost of grabbing something off eBay for a hundred bucks.

    That's if the Rpi Foundation is deigning to let us peasants even buy them these days.

    [–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I have an old rackmount server I got for free. Dual Xeon X5650s, 192GB of RAM, four 8TB HDDs, and a pair of 250GB SSDs. I can only use it in the basement because it’s too loud to run anywhere else, but even then, it’s currently off because it trips its circuit breaker under heavy load.

    A power strip full of Pis in a k3s cluster doesn’t do that. I used a 2GB model 4 for the control plane and 3Bs as the workers.

    [–] 0101100101@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Why do you think you got it for free ;)

    [–] unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Eh, it was good when I got it. Who am I to turn down a free dual socket server though? :)

    [–] 0101100101@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Useful in winter I suppose!

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    But I have a heat pump that is more efficient

    [–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

    If it trips circuit breakers it's using a terrifying amount of power. Honestly with energy prices I am starting to think old stuff is actually becoming a bad value in some cases.

    [–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

    The problem is that server will probably use more electricity, it'll be clunky to store, and it's going to be loud as fuck.