It seems wrong to compare the price of a fully assembled bambu against a prusa kit. Especially for a farm, you want to pull it out and print.
Have you tried the mmu? It wasn't great. Mine's collecting dust. The xl didn't get good reviews when it launched, I'm not sure how the sl is doing.
I'm not saying prusa don't make awesome printers, but their first gen tends need more refinement. I've owned a few creality but my mk3 was my favorite printer until the x1c.
And yeah totally agree the voron would be for a fun thing, not a print farm.
So pricey, and their core xy just came out. Prusa doesn't have the best track record with their initial releases.
I love my mk3 but I wouldn't buy a prusa right now.
I'm In a similar boat to op, I don't feel there's a good solution right now. The creality k2+ and qidi plus 4 are worth looking at, but they're also fairly new and not well proven yet.
I'm tempted to take the plunge and finally build a voron 2.4
I'm not worried about it yet, we're covering our costs as it is today with existing donations. I don't want us to be like Wikipedia begging for money all the time.
Compute no, but memory yes. Lemmy is actually pretty lean and efficient, but 32gb is a bit tight for a few instances of it as well as postgres. We run multiple instances to reduce the impact when one stutters (not uncommon).
Upgrading to 64gb probably would have let us scale for the next year on the existing box, but I had this totally overkill hardware so might as well use it!
When purchased brand new by a now dying tech company, it was about 20-25k. I put dibs on it as part of my commission for managing the shut down & sale of their datacenters, this was just one of many such servers they owned.
Yes, can do active / active effectively. That's basically stage 3 but it's all on one box to keep costs down. We get software failure redundancy but not hardware.
Metadata is in the db, files are in object storage. This is pictrs's design and the correct way to build it.
We're at 1tb of images today, no way I'd want to deal with scaling postgres to multiple TB. Object storage is cheap, scalable, easy to distribute and manage across multiple providers, etc.
If you're looking in the tech industry, I've been finding https://app.welcometothejungle.com/ useful for bubbling the better stuff up to the top. I still trawl through LN though.
It seems wrong to compare the price of a fully assembled bambu against a prusa kit. Especially for a farm, you want to pull it out and print.
Have you tried the mmu? It wasn't great. Mine's collecting dust. The xl didn't get good reviews when it launched, I'm not sure how the sl is doing.
I'm not saying prusa don't make awesome printers, but their first gen tends need more refinement. I've owned a few creality but my mk3 was my favorite printer until the x1c.
And yeah totally agree the voron would be for a fun thing, not a print farm.