Interesting. I do wonder how much power savings there are with a cluster of Pi's versus, say, the old PowerEdge 2930 i have running in my basement.

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Aurelia Fenderson-Peters
Aurelia Fenderson-Peters

Written by Aurelia Fenderson-Peters

20+ years writing code of various sorts. Full of trans magic.

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With the NVMe, its 2 watts per node idle. Spinning disks take way more power when they're running. Granted spinning disks "spin down", but that spin up/down cycle really stresses the disks. They fail faster with constant spin ups and spin downs.

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