Want 1.5TB of RAM in Your PC? It Will Cost You
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#2I've done some shopping around, and the best pricing I can find puts these 128GB RAM at about $1,500.
Each. Yes, each.
Some back of the envelope math -- or math in your head if you are good at that sort of thing -- put the price of 1.5TB of RAM at a cool $18,000.
If my memory serves me well, I routinely bought 1Mb RAM modules for 5.500 Spanish pesetas (33 Euro). This was around 1987-1990 I believe. If my math is right, that would be more than 4 million Euro for 128GB RAM.
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#3tldr: 1.5TB costs $18,000
That's only about three times more expensive than if you'd extrapolate from regularly sized DIMM modules.
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#4If you're an enterprise that needs a single CPU server with 1.5TB of RAM (to run SAP HANA or some other in-memory DB most likely) then the RAM cost, or really the entire hardware cost, is probably the smallest line item in the entire business case, more or less a rounding error. The author seems to be approaching this from the standpoint of someone building a home rig for some reason.
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#51.5TB ram is grand and all, but the high end dell r9xx servers take a full 6 or 12TB for full load... fun note, the Xeon sp M models support the full ram...
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#6Hardware is dirt cheap today. 256GB RAM fits into normal high end workstation.
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#7If you’re going to flip over the cost of RAM at the high end then you don’t want to hear about all the expensive proprietary stuff that clearly only costs pennies to make. I’m talking the special torque wrenches to remove motherboards or other chassis stuff.
It’s like Apples new Mac Pro and display. Those prices are just dialed that way to keep them out of home offices. It’s infuriating, yes, but prevalent.
Re: Want 1.5TB of RAM in Your PC? It Will Cost You
#8I've done some shopping around, and the best pricing I can find puts these 128GB RAM at about $1,500. Each. Yes, each. Some back of the envelope math -- or math in your head if you are good at that sort of thing -- put the price of 1.5TB of RAM at a cool $18,000. If my memory serves me well, I routinely bought 1Mb RAM modules for 5.500 Spanish pesetas (33 Euro). This was around 1987-1990 I believe. If my math is righ…
An Arduino UNO comes with 2 kB of RAM installed and retails for about 20$. If you want to get 1.5 TB of RAM by connecting them (not accounting for any overhead on each controller) you would need 800 Million Arudino UNOs which would cost you about 16 Billion Dollars.
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#9I've done some shopping around, and the best pricing I can find puts these 128GB RAM at about $1,500. Each. Yes, each. Some back of the envelope math -- or math in your head if you are good at that sort of thing -- put the price of 1.5TB of RAM at a cool $18,000. If my memory serves me well, I routinely bought 1Mb RAM modules for 5.500 Spanish pesetas (33 Euro). This was around 1987-1990 I believe. If my math is righ…
Once adjusted for inflation, it's more like 7 millions.
To be fair, you have to factor in Moore's law. I'm not great at math, but I think you'd still end up with something like half a million. $18k for 1.5TB is still a steal.
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#10Is it just me, or is it becoming too commonplace for an article to have a video attached to it that is vaguely related? The video attached to this article is how to upgrade the mac mini to 32GB of ram. Interesting, but just left of adjacent in terms of how it's related to this article.