I'm aware the purpose of this forum has largely been previous generation enterprise gear, but if nothing else I was wondering if people could steer me to where to talk about the use of modern tiny power non-x86 single board computers.
I'm aware there are official R Pi forums - i'm actually more interested in many of the clones, since those clones exist for alot of reasons. (more power, other features, etc) Actually choosing which CLONE is like more than half of the problem.
I still plan to use heavyweight hardware at some point in the future as problems scale up but I realize two things about my current computing needs - one is that I don't need all that much YET (for things like a home NAS) and two is that overconvergence is a problem. Something that really can be single tasked may be better to just keep running on it's own rather than trying to push everything into a 12-24 core multi Xeon monster. Especially when not everything has to run 24/7.
I'm aware there are official R Pi forums - i'm actually more interested in many of the clones, since those clones exist for alot of reasons. (more power, other features, etc) Actually choosing which CLONE is like more than half of the problem.
I still plan to use heavyweight hardware at some point in the future as problems scale up but I realize two things about my current computing needs - one is that I don't need all that much YET (for things like a home NAS) and two is that overconvergence is a problem. Something that really can be single tasked may be better to just keep running on it's own rather than trying to push everything into a 12-24 core multi Xeon monster. Especially when not everything has to run 24/7.