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1U mini PC for AI? (startrek.website)
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My rack is finished for now (because I'm out of money).

Last time I posted I had some jank cables going through the rack and now we're using patch panels with color coordinated cables!

But as is tradition, I'm thinking about upgrades and I'm looking at that 1U filler panel. A mini PC with a 5060ti 16gb or maybe a 5070 12gb would be pretty sick to move my AI slop generating into my tiny rack.

I'm also thinking about the PI cluster at the top. Currently that's running a Kubernetes cluster that I'm trying to learn on. They're all PI4 4GB, so I was going to start replacing them with PI5 8/16GB. Would those be better price/performance for mostly coding tasks? Or maybe a discord bot for shitposting.

Thoughts? MiniPC recs? Wanna bully me for using AI? Please do!

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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

This is so pretty 😍🤩💦!!

I've been considering a micro rack to support the journey, but primarily for house old laptop chassis as I convert them into proxmox resources.

Any thoughts or comments on you choice of this rack?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago

    Not really a lot of thought went into rack choice. I wanted something smaller and more powerful than my several optiplexs I had.

    I also decided I didn't want storage to happen here anymore because I am stupid and only knew how to pass through disks for Truenas. So I had 4 truenas servers on my network and I hated it.

    This was just what I wanted at a price I was good with at Like $120. There's a 3D printable version but I wasn't interested in that. I do want to 3D print racks and I want to make my own custom ones for the Pis to save space.

    But this set up is way cheaper if you have a printer and some patience.

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