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by jacquesm 4050 days ago
Less than 6 machines with 1T each ;) (Assuming the 6 will operate only on local data and will never need to communicate in which case you may well end up with more than 6).

But seriously: the price of RAM for servers is now ~10$ / G.
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akie 4050 days ago
That would translate to ~$60k for 6TB of RAM. Plus the cost of the server itself ($10k?)
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jacquesm 4050 days ago
No, that's a very expensive server, and Dell will charge you a hefty premium for the memory. There are quite a few options that will cost you less than that (of course the maximum capacity will vary).

It would be nice to see an article comparing all the high RAM machines side by side with specs and prices.

The largest machine I have right now will hold 512G and was a run-of-the-mill machine, it was about $5K, I'd expect the more exotic ones to be substantially more expensive but probably not as expensive as the machines linked here.

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RogerL 4050 days ago
Can you point me to cheap 64GB LRDIMM Octal rank memory? Dell's prices for this seem to be the market rate, but maybe I don't know where to shop.
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jacquesm 4050 days ago
I can get Octal rank in bulk for ~$1K so that's $16 or thereabouts / G, still not bad for RAM that is obviously going to be sold in smaller quantities. Note that HP or Dell will probably not be happy if you use 3rd party RAM in their machines (if they didn't pull tricks to make sure only their own stuff works!).

(For contrast, that $1K if you'd spend it on HP branded RAM would not even get you four 16G dual rank units...).

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RogerL 4050 days ago
The price of 6TB is more in the range of 1/2 million. 64GB LRDIMM Octal rank is running $4.5K.
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jacquesm 4050 days ago
You really don't know where to shop ;)

5 seconds of googling gets you:

http://www.allhdd.com/index.php?target=products&mode=search&...

No idea if that will work in that particular server but technically there is no reason why it should not. You can establish a relationship with a distributor to get better prices than those that you can find listed. Those 'call for quotes' things can have two meanings: you're about to be screwed or 'we will give you a better price if you promise to not divulge that we did that'.

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