Comment on Fitting a server with desktop hardware in a 1U rack mount chassis

• epyon22@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No blades are different they are small full computers that go into a large backplane chassis www.supermicro.com/sites/…/8U_SuperBlade.png

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• scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have blade servers, they are smaller than 1u

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• jpaskaruk@growers.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  @yaroto98 @scottmeme Nah, a blade server is a weird format where servers are long rectangular "blades" that push into and can be pulled out of an enclosure in the rack which holds around 16 of them.

  How I know: deployed a 500-node render farm at Tangent Animation.

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