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.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldOP
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    15 hours ago

    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
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      1 hour 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.