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Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server

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Re: Not surprised

Educational/experimental could mean a lot of different things. For example, educational system could mean the Pi foundation's original dream of a desktop used in a school for ease of maintenance. The original Pi was almost entirely incapable of that, and the newer Pi, while it can do most of the tasks you might expect of a school computer, isn't always capable (running some bloated online learning platform which is a memory hog on a 4B 1GB, for instance). Experimental system is even more vague, as you can experiment with a lot of different things. Experimentation with administering a system, using a lot of server-style software, etc.: a Pi is great for that. Experimenting with machine learning where the instructions recommend a minimum spec for the GPU: think again. Therefore, it still depends on the use case, and a quite detailed one.

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