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If 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 t
by DebtDeflation 7y ago
If 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.
- benologist 7y agoSomeone with a surplus of personal income will need that much ram just to post their Plex server on https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab.
- goatinaboat 7y agoI have been buying 1Tb+ servers for years now, most recently to run Redis. $50k for a box is nothing when you consider we used to spend 10-20x that on Sun or SGI boxes.
- fulafel 7y agoBig memory PC servers [1] were at around 6 TB 4 years ago with 64 GB DIMMMS [2], 1.5 TB is not a lot today for a server. [1] conventional single motherboard designs that is, larger of the top500 machines seems to be at the single petabytes now [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9582023