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by Dylan16807 3348 days ago
> you're the target for the 375GB+ datacenter version

Keeping in mind that that version costs $4/GB, which is about half the price of adding more RAM. Which means that while it can be good storage for ZFS or a database, it's still not a particularly effective cache in such a machine.
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merb 3348 days ago
well at 1tb memory there aren't that many dimm slots free and some processors also don't support that much more.

but still what I wanted to say is that it is prolly more useful as a ssd read cache. and not to have it behind your big memory.

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pixl97 3348 days ago
It costs $4 per GB today. In 6 months it will probably be $3, and in a few years it will be $2. Meanwhile RAM will still be $8 per GB or more. Also 64GB dimms are around $13 per GB, and have been around that price for awhile.
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