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by anarazel 2311 days ago
One TB of memory is actually quite expensive. And uses a fair bit of power.
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H8crilA 2311 days ago
Not at all compared to salaries.

I mean just think about how many VMs you can buy for $200k-$500k/yr (total cost to the company of a senior engineer).

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imtringued 2310 days ago
According to AWS you could only afford 10 instances each with 976GB of RAM for that salary (500k). If you were to do nothing but just buy the raw RAM it would cost you 50k. But you also need servers [0] to actually put the ram into. So it's probably closer to 70k. RAM isn't as cheap as you think.

[0] and a network and network admins and server admins and and and

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H8crilA 2310 days ago
So you mean 4-10TiB is the equivalent of a senior engineer via AWS pricing and my rough estimate of the cost of an engineer. I think we agree?
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