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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

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468 points speckx | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 14:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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deadbabe ◴[19 Sep 25 15:22 UTC] No.45302653[source]▶
I really don’t understand the hype over raspberry Pi.

It’s an overrated, overhyped little computer. Like ok it’s small I guess but why is it the default that everyone wants to build something new on? Because it’s cheap? Whatever happened to buy once, cry once? Why not just build an actual powerful rig? For your NAS? For your firewalls? For security cameras? For your local AI agents?

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theultdev ◴[19 Sep 25 15:30 UTC] No.45302733[source]▶
I use mine for a plex server.

I don't need to transcode + I need something I can leave on that draws little power.

I have a powerful rig, but the one time I get to turn it off is when I'd need the media server lol.

There's a lot of scenarios where power usage comes into play.

These clusters don't make much sense to me though.

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deadbabe ◴[19 Sep 25 15:32 UTC] No.45302763[source]▶
That’s insane, drawing very little power from an always on server is a solved problem.
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1. lostmsu ◴[19 Sep 25 16:16 UTC] No.45303377{3}[source]▶
Not to mention there's more cost, effort, and energy effective compute from old laptops.

Unless you have a robot body for your potential RPi, don't buy one.