Yeah, pro-sumer TB/Oculink gear tends to put a big premium on density and flexible deployment, which results in pricing that seems ridiculous to anyone who isn’t required to teardown, haul, and setup equipment regularly.
I considered getting one of these at a higher price point just to try shucking it for use as an enclosure because it’s so unusually compact. Pretty sure it’s small enough to fit in a pocket of a backpack when most of my enclosures are the size of SFF towers — to accommodate internal PSU, larger cards, etc — so the density would reduce what I have to haul separately by 1.
lol yeah, I couldn’t think of the right word so borrowed that one. But I suppose we don’t usually shuck oysters and keep just the shells lol. I only meant opening / replacing some of its guts. But I didn’t explore it. It would be wasted effort if, for example, the controllers and interface were all on the same board as the gpu, because then you would still have to get at least a PCIe oculink riser in there, even if you could use original heatsinks.
Yeah, pro-sumer TB/Oculink gear tends to put a big premium on density and flexible deployment, which results in pricing that seems ridiculous to anyone who isn’t required to teardown, haul, and setup equipment regularly.
I considered getting one of these at a higher price point just to try shucking it for use as an enclosure because it’s so unusually compact. Pretty sure it’s small enough to fit in a pocket of a backpack when most of my enclosures are the size of SFF towers — to accommodate internal PSU, larger cards, etc — so the density would reduce what I have to haul separately by 1.
You mean replacing the 7600M with something else?
My frame of reference for shucking is taking a portable HDD device and extracting the actual HDD for price savings.
lol yeah, I couldn’t think of the right word so borrowed that one. But I suppose we don’t usually shuck oysters and keep just the shells lol. I only meant opening / replacing some of its guts. But I didn’t explore it. It would be wasted effort if, for example, the controllers and interface were all on the same board as the gpu, because then you would still have to get at least a PCIe oculink riser in there, even if you could use original heatsinks.