Subj : Re: ESXi
To   : Accession
From : fusion
Date : Sun Nov 09 2025 09:26 am

On 09 Nov 2025, Accession said the following...
 
 Ac> BTW, I looked a little deeper into those mini PCs you were talking
 Ac> about. It's crazy how they can cram that much stuff into like a 6" x 6"
 Ac> x 3" box. They also boast great cooling, which I find quite hard to do
 Ac> with what they're working with. Up to 3 or 4 displays even.. Crazy!

check out "Jeff Geerling" on youtube. he's been doing a lot of tiny pc stuff lately but also it might spark some more weird ideas..

it's almost (if not already) to the point where some weird m.2 to 6 port sata thing frankensteined on top of a mini pc with a multi-hard-drive enclosure (that the mini pc also fits inside) could be totally reasonable. a whole collection of VMs and all. and probably using a 10th of the electricity..

tbh except for mass storage (spinning disks) the "server rack" is going to be a desktop item pretty quick ;)

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