How "fast" and "strong" can those servers be?
Compared to something we all know, e.g. MBP 16" 2019, how does this rack of Raspberry Pi's stack up?
Raspberry Pi Server Mark III
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#132How "fast" and "strong" can those servers be? Compared to something we all know, e.g. MBP 16" 2019, how does this rack of Raspberry Pi's stack up?
I'm just trying to understand the power of those machines compared to the only piece of equipment I daily use and can compare to.
I know it can be like comparing apples to oranges but I was just curious how fast this can be.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
You absolutely could. But you wouldn't learn how to build a system that recovers from yanking a power or network cable, wouldn't own it, and wouldn't be able to run it on your terms. You'd need a credit card with an American-run payments network to operate, with a declared identity and a bank account, for which a prerequisite is a few months of stable living and income in a particular jurisdiction, itself something l…
> You'd need a credit card with an American-run payments network to operate, with a declared identity and a bank account, for which a prerequisite is a few months of stable living and income in a particular jurisdiction, None of this is true.
Try being from a random South Asian or African village. Tell me how you go buying cloud services with your nonexistant banking infrastructure and personal credit line.
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#135How "fast" and "strong" can those servers be? Compared to something we all know, e.g. MBP 16" 2019, how does this rack of Raspberry Pi's stack up?
I'm just trying to understand the power of those machines compared to the only piece of equipment I daily use and can compare to. I know it can be like comparing apples to oranges but I was just curious how fast this can be.
The best Raspberry Pi available right now is a bit faster than a modern entry-level PC. It has 4 ARM cores running at 1.5 GHz and 8 gigs of RAM.
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#136What is a use case for this if any?
There isn't one. For actually delivering an application, a traditional server is better in every way, unless your application is so small that you are wasting your hardware and get killed on power costs. It's more or less the same as the people in /r/homelab who have full server racks in their basements but never do anything with most of their eBay servers other than install CentOS on them. At least those can serve m…
lol brrrrt. Actually there's heaps of cases. Traditional servers are large, power hungry and generally 10-100x the compute power most jobs need if you buy a piece of hardware for a site. Traditional server also requires expensive monkey like me to service.
RPI rack on other hand. plug and play. Cheap as chips to keep failover as you can keep backup rigs in a cupboard. It doesnt require expensive monkey to unplug bits. Most sites I serve have minimal if any internet at all. So cloud compute not an option everything has to be done on-site. RPI is perfect. It has more than enough grunt, costs bugger all, performance is rock solid.
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#137What could you do with a similar setup? I mean: what's the purpose and/or the advantages compared to a "classical" solution ?
Its cool and fun and teaches you a skill at a low price point. There is essentially no functional reason to do this over a single high power server unless for some reason you need a bunch of ARM servers for something.
lol? what if you don't need a heap of compute power but require a lot of redundancy? A single server is not good for that...Also not every site has internet so yes having small redundant easily replaceable nodes on-site does have plenty of use cases.
Y'all negative folks against this seem to have very restricted use cases in mind. Not all redundant rack servers live in a 36U case in a air-conditioned internet connected server farm. There are plenty of use cases outside of this.
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#138What could you do with a similar setup? I mean: what's the purpose and/or the advantages compared to a "classical" solution ?
Could be used for testing hardware+firmware. Example connect 14 hardware revisions of a $SOME_HARDWARE to each RPi and test firmware changes.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just trying to understand the power of those machines compared to the only piece of equipment I daily use and can compare to. I know it can be like comparing apples to oranges but I was just curious how fast this can be.
The best Raspberry Pi available right now is a bit faster than a modern entry-level PC. It has 4 ARM cores running at 1.5 GHz and 8 gigs of RAM.
That is not true at all. For compute, it's about 5x slower than the cheapest Intel processor you can buy.
It's certainly much better than the original Raspberry Pi (which felt like a 486), but it is not using recent technology and it just doesn't compare to what is available today. It is for projects where you would normally use a microcontroller, but want HDMI and Linux out of the box. People using the Pi for art projects, signage, dashboards, controlling their sprinkler system, etc. have the right idea. People using them to serve interactive traffic are going to have a bad time. They are really, really slow.
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#140Why there is so much love for such project where someone connected a couple of ready made things (maybe except the case) and everyone gets excited?