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I would like to see some OCP designs leaking out of hyperscaler datacenters and pop up as desktops or deskside designs.

Right now there isn’t any decent looking piece of kit to turn any 5u rack server into a deskside. HP had it with their Itanium workstations. We need more creative designers.

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You want a 5U with H200 on your desk, not minding the rest of the necessities that go along with it? How about an 88x SAS drive array crammed in that same space?

Unless the 88 drives are SSD's there is a noise issue to deal with (and, with 88 of anything, thermals and also more noise), but I wouldn't mind a machine designed with ease of maintenance in mind.

The issue is not with the creativity of the designers. It is with corporate incentives and consumer demand, mostly.

It's cheaper to get a refurbished rack server than a tower version of the exact same machine (because there are a lot more decommissioned rack machines).

I guess I'll have to try my hand at 3D printing bigger stuff.

> I guess I'll have to try my hand at 3D printing bigger stuff.

An attractive 5U deskside enclosure sounds like a woodworking project to me. I might be blinkered though!

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