OpenMandriva on Ampere Altra
Even though the weight of the box was pretty impressive when I had to carry it to the second floor, the content turned out to be far more impressive - a Mt. Collins server with Ampere Altra CPUs - 160 CPU cores and 128 GB RAM, given to us by Ampere Computing to support our aarch64 development efforts.
Quite a step forward from the eMAG we’ve been using as our main aarch64 builder so far, and not even comparable to the various Rock Pi 4 boards that serve as our backup builders.
The front side of the server has 24 2.5" NVMe U.2 SSD slots that can be hotplugged, as well as 2 USB ports and a VGA port.