Comment by bubblethink
1 day ago
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.
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.
Try again with 2026 RAM prices.