Here you can discuss this with the guys that are making the product:
It's dire: Raspberry Pi availability tracker
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#22I'm sitting on 4xpi4 8 Gb and 4xpi4 4Gb, from a small cluster I built last year. In Sweden. If anyone needs a few I could probably be persuaded to part with them as they're just gathering dust right now.
Interesting, why didn't you put them in production?
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#23It's a shame that so many are simply wasted. Lots of people bought multiple units in the past to run toy clusters for no reason. I myself have a Pico I got free with the magazine that I've yet to use. There must be thousands gathering dust that people could make use of. Edit: In fact, if anyone does want to play with setting up a cluster (like for kubernetes or something) you can do it easily with VMs. Two great opti…
Ironically the Pico is the one where they seem to have an abundance of silicon (they sell the actual RP2040 chip by the thousands in reels, and there's plenty of stock.
Most of that's down to how tiny the actual silicon is for the RP2040—you can print hundreds (thousands?) on a single silicon wafer.
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#24This site doesn't seem to take bundles into account. I just had a look at The PiHut and they have some Pi 4 devices available if you're happy getting them as part of a bundle (e.g. case, power supply, etc). The rpilocator website is currently showing The Pihut as being out of stock of all Pi 4 devices.
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#25The Target near me has them in stock from time to time. For projects, try HP thin clients on eBay.
Or Dell thin clients. Despite some oddities with the Cherry Trail (?) boards used on the Wyse 3040 series, they are x86 and have similar processing power to the Rpi4. They come with a quad core processor, 2GB of RAM and (usually) 8GB of storage, which I assume is EMMC. Multiple USB ports, gigabit Ethernet, dual DisplayPort out.
You can usually find them for around $35-40.
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#26I'm sitting on 4xpi4 8 Gb and 4xpi4 4Gb, from a small cluster I built last year. In Sweden. If anyone needs a few I could probably be persuaded to part with them as they're just gathering dust right now.
Interesting, why didn't you put them in production?
Well, they were in a sense my first production environment, but I outgrew them.
The big problem is they're not chonky enough. Most of the stuff I'm working on doesn't distribute all that well. I have some smaller services, but they're so small they don't really eat much resources from my server either.
If I had machines closer to 32 Gb it might be worth adding additional nodes, but 8 Gb is too small to do anything useful with that isn't mostly just a hassle of constant maintenance and jank.
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#27The Target near me has them in stock from time to time. For projects, try HP thin clients on eBay.
An HP Thin Client might be nicer in some ways (x86 instead of ARM, say) but the lack of GPIO wouldn't make them a replacement for some RPi projects (and I haven't ever tried to install Debian or Ubuntu on one, not sure how unusual the hardware is).
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#28This is really nice - is there one like this for graphics cards too?
When I was in the market for a GPU (last September, bought a 3070ti) I found youtube channels with live tickers of GPU stock notifications.
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#29Why all the obsession over the pi now all of a sudden? The pi4/400 has been out for a couple of years at this point. Yet they’re still out of stock?
Mostly lack of new PIs being produced. Semiconductors shortage becomes a pain in the ….
And it's getting worse, not better. The secondary and tertiary component suppliers are running dry.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, why didn't you put them in production?
Well, they were in a sense my first production environment, but I outgrew them. The big problem is they're not chonky enough. Most of the stuff I'm working on doesn't distribute all that well. I have some smaller services, but they're so small they don't really eat much resources from my server either. If I had machines closer to 32 Gb it might be worth adding additional nodes, but 8 Gb is too small to do anything us…
I think you made that search engine right? That's why you need 32GB RAM?