Just out of curiosity, how many of us are still buying/running NUCs? If so, why? (I mean, besides their small footprint and low power draw...)
Well, I wasn't thinking about brand new NUCs, it's more like those Optiplex Micros or EliteDesk Minis Corporate NUCs that are dumped on the market at clear-the-warehouse prices. I am thinking about writing a resource/guide on NUCs, but it doesn't look like people are gravitating on them anymore.I do not discriminate. I would use anything with good enough price/performance. No new NUC ever qualified but that's another question isn't it?
Heh. Hades Canyon is the Kaby Lake-G machine (the weird little hybrid with the Intel 870xG and an AMD Radeon Vega) with the bigger non-standard NUC form factor? Those are...stupid expensive (900+ when new?), although I am surprised that the Intel BIOS enabled SRIOV functionality on them. I have an XPS15 2-in-one on loan from work with the Vega...would be interesting if I can boot it into ESXi and pass the GPU through. I kinda sorta wanted to do that with my i7-5775R based Gigabyte BRiX, or at the very least try to get gVTg working.Hard to beat the form factor. You can pass through the GPU on one of the models even: GPU Passthrough of Radeon RX Vega M in Intel Hades Canyon
I have a similar low power setup for VMs that isn't exactly a NUC and imagine many others do as well.
Yeah, that model is much larger and commands a hefty price premium still given its size. This is what I have personally (mostly because it's fanless): Fully rugged, industrial Embedded Box PC 5000 | Dell USAHeh. Hades Canyon is the Kaby Lake-G machine (the weird little hybrid with the Intel 870xG and an AMD Radeon Vega) with the bigger non-standard NUC form factor? Those are...stupid expensive (900+ when new?), although I am surprised that the Intel BIOS enabled SRIOV functionality on them. I have an XPS15 2-in-one on loan from work with the Vega...would be interesting if I can boot it into ESXi and pass the GPU through. I kinda sorta wanted to do that with my i7-5775R based Gigabyte BRiX, or at the very least try to get gVTg working.
Okay, so the question is....what do you do with the NUCs (other than Proxmox node or something similar)?
Wow. Thats a fairly sizable machine (the dimensions say that they are 7 liters in size), and they are not exactly common with depreciated/off-lease inventory (not likely to be replaced every 3-4 years). How did you end up with that beauty? I figure machines like that would be COM Express based and not a market Dell would enter. You learn something new every day.Yeah, that model is much larger and commands a hefty price premium still given its size. This is what I have personally (mostly because it's fanless): Fully rugged, industrial Embedded Box PC 5000 | Dell USA
I have 32GB of RAM in mine and a bunch of Hyper-V VMs. I don't have heavy use at home (only using half the RAM at the moment), so it has been plenty for me.
I actually tried to use one of my 7th gen NUCs (currently HTPC) as a VM host, but I wanted it to double as my HTPC, which didn't work so well. The IR receiver doesn't work with Windows Server and Windows 10 isn't really great as a VM host. Ah well.