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Are traditional builds obsolete? (lemmy.world)
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I've been pricing out components for my first new build in 20 years. (I've bought many ebay servers and a few mini PCs in between).

The parts are around $2k. But then I look at the amd ai max+ 395 PCs that are out or coming out shortly and I think I might be buying an already obsolete platform. For the same price I'd get 16 cores and over 2x the memory bandwidth.

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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

the amd ai max+ 395 PCs that are out

Most of these are SFF and don't have much (if any) capability to fit HDDs inside. They're not the right choice if you want a lot of bulk storage in a single box.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Imo a separate nas build is better for bulk storage. It's part of why I think I'm buying a dinosaur to get a full ATX case when a SFF AI max would run circles around it.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Just saying I agree, I use a USB-attached HDD enclosure because it's trivial to have a lot of hot swap HDD in that sort of product, and even the moderately slower USB-3 that some use is generally up to the task to keeping up with a handful of spinning platters.