兩者差了 85W,如果以五年來算就差了 3723 度的電,另外再考慮 PUE 與機櫃空間租用的成本,長期應該是頗有機會換掉原來的 x86 系統。反過來看,短期有轉換測試成本以及 (可能會有的) 較高的故障率 (畢竟是白老鼠 XD),再來是機器本身價錢差距,這些都是會想要知道的...
在 tweet 後 Matthew Prince 有回答一些問題,另外可以看到後續會有更多細節會整理出來,但感覺應該是調整的差不多決定會換過去了?這邊算是延續去年十一月「Cloudflare 測試 ARM 新的伺服器」這篇所做的事情,當時他們拿到 ARM 的工程板在測試,就已經跟 Xeon 打的差不多 (有輸有贏),現在應該又改善更多...
看 retweet 數可以看出來大家還滿期待的,畢竟 ARM 上面的 Linux 本來就因為行動裝置很熱,現在主要還是差在有沒有穩定的伺服器可以用。
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