All good, as long as there is self-awareness that it's not built on a "need", but on a "want" basis.
It should be obvious to the reader that this is very much overkill, even for the stated goals of expandability and learning.
All good, as long as there is self-awareness that it's not built on a "need", but on a "want" basis.
It should be obvious to the reader that this is very much overkill, even for the stated goals of expandability and learning.
How do you know if it's overkill without knowing anything about what I am/will be running on it? Certainly, there are projects for which this setup might be appropriately sized, wouldn't you think?
Incidentally, this setup does leave me some significant headroom in terms of compute resources, but that's by design.
People don't usually buy this much compute for running a mail server or a media transcoder, so... probably AI? :)
If it's inference, don't expect great performance or cost-effectiveness.
But if you learn a lot during it, I wish you all the best!