@olivierlambert said in Is this an upgrade?:
Personally, I switched from a full 2U HPE + Epyc to a small... Protecli unit with 96GiB RAM (now you can go up to 128G I think?) using those Intel CPUs. To be fair, it works perfectly fine, 2x SFP+ and NVMe drives are large enough for my needs. Sure, it's a downgrade in some aspects (space to add PCIe devices, more drives etc.) but for my need it's enough. And the power usage is very low.
So all in all, what matters is to fine the right form factor/power for your usage. Now, mini PCs are really powerful and attractive for that.
Thanks for your reply. Quick question - which CPU did you use - I thought XCP-ng did not work well with heterogeneous CPUs. That's why I was thinking of using the 795SE vs for example the MS-O1 from Minisforum which uses the Intel i9-13900H and has two types of cores. Have you had any issues?