Does anyone here want to please guide me a little, to know the difference between the Server One and the Server Pure? What could I do with the Server Pure that I can’t do with the Server One?
The Server Pure is what we deem to be the ideal privacy focused setup.
Having a disabled Intel Management Engine makes this hardware more expensive, therefore we came out with another option the Server One.
At this time the only service that can only work on the Server Pure vs the Server One is Stable Diffusion (AI image creation) due to it being optimized for the Intel processor.
At some point it will be made available for the Server One as well.
Thank you for the response with the info.
Having Server One 4 Terabytes for now, I consider myself well equipped, especially as far as BTC is concerned. Given that e.g. Adobe CC among other services, is also allowing us to generate AI images, I do not consider it necessary to take a step “forward” to get a device like the Server Pure. Now if there is, for example, some other implementation in the BTC-Core, electrs, LNBits, Mempool, noStrudel + Nostr apps, Thunderhub, RoboSats, BTCPay Server, File Browser, Lightning Terminal, LND, Ride the Lightning, SearXNG, Vaulwarden apps, I would like to know what Server Pure does better instead of Server One.
Is there a more detailed description of this? Our dear friend B.Perrin has a video on how to migrate from one device to another, but it does not show in detail what the differences are about what I mention above.
Server Pure offers coreboot firmware and Intel® Management Engine (IME) disabled. This provides a robust security profile that is difficult to achieve.
Server One is less expensive and more powerful, but it does contain closed source software.
Here is the comparison link: https://store.start9.com/cdn/shop/files/compare.png?v=1714441764
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If i may refresh the topic
Is it worth to buy pure for ordinary person that is not like youtuber / podcaster or publicly known person?
I read that pure has coreboot and there is IME disabled, but i really do not grasp what it means for me.
I know “worth” is very relative, but say i do care about privacy and use grapheneos without google services, using my own node for years on umbrel. Finally the time i want to switch to something more foss and i have no idea what coreboot and IME can provide to me.
edit: this is something i am missing from all the conversations around pure vs one, in addition, 300EUR is just too much to not consider options
If the idea of proprietary binary blobs, running below your open source OS makes you uncomfortable. Or if you can’t tolerate Intel potentially having a back-door into your hardware, the Pure might be worth it to you. It’s just a know unknown. The Pure eliminates this.
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What do you mean by binary blobs ?
A binary blob is functional code, that operates without the end user having visibility into it’s function.
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