@benjojo the use of word “desktop” for a machine with 3 × 40mm “high performance” fans is worrying.

@benjojo I bet it's a little screamyboi

@benjojo @0x47df you can usually bodge the fan profile or set speed manually with ipmitool on supermicro boards but there’s only so much you can do with teeny fans :(

@bencc @benjojo maybe fitting a baffle helps, maybe it just needs more directed airflow. I was looking at one of my c2000 boards and thinking about that the other night .

@benjojo Recently I am in love with some of the dell Wyse thinclients. I am running a lab full of containers on a 5070 with an SSD fitted, and it even runs qemu for a Mikrotik VM, happily inside 9 watts. It's making me reconsider a lot of what I'm doing.

@benjojo @0x47df archive subdomain has old wikis: https://wiki-archive.emfcamp.org/2022/wiki/Village:EMF-IX

@benjojo @0x47df @emf See also the network of mirror run by @warthog9 and @kwf

@nico @benjojo @0x47df @warthog9 @emf thin clients as load bearing infrastructure is my jam.

@kwf @nico @benjojo @warthog9 @emf I want to move my mastodon instance to a 3040 in the near future 😅 just validating how well my usb sticks hold up to nasty write cycles

@0x47df @kwf @nico @benjojo @emf that might not be the *BEST* idea. Take a look for a usb stick that has an m.2 sata or nvme drive in it (or get an explicit enclosure for one) you'll be much happier long term

@warthog9 @kwf @nico @benjojo @emf *nods* it's an experiment in how many write cycles the cheap ones will do for now!

@benjojo We used to use a pair of these for running the RIPE Meeting network (now we upgraded to a slightly bigger E300).

It is particularly handy if you want to bring your server in the cabin luggage before the truck with the rest of the stuff arrives.

@benjojo Ooo, very cool! Wish it had a little more space for some extra drives.

@benjojo This reminds me of the Supermicro BigTwin chassis which actually has its use cases 😁 My 2nd employer had those with 4 blades in 2U deployed for high density virtualization.

I am still dreaming of a private super dense colo setup with one of those and... also two SN2010 (saw it in a customer rack a while ago and asked them about it), but the BigTwin doesn't allow for aftermarket hardware (I don't know if that form factor for those blades even has an official name) and costs...

@benjojo @wrmsr why go for multiple units versus a fat bargain hardware R6xx? redundancy/space/consumption???