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Isn't this massively overpriced? What does this buy you over a supermicro box running ubuntu?

Have you priced a Supermicro box with 16 bays and SAS running Ubuntu?

I have, in pre-COVID days, though. The total bill including a skylake xeon E3-1285 v6 CPU, 64 GB ECC RAM, and the supermicro X11 board + chassis (https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/archive/chassis/SC836...) was under $1k.

The current-gen 3U SuperChassis alone is $1200USD.

Try again with 2026 RAM prices.

The world changed. Massively. Reprice everything you're benchmarking pre covid.

Yes I know, but not by 4x. You can buy a lot of real compute for $4k, not an arm box with 16 disk bays.

Reread my comment and process it.

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