And how much you can afford. My partner's scientific research group recently upgraded their shared server used for analysis ... to one with 32 GB of RAM and 8 T

And how much you can afford. My partner's scientific research group recently upgraded their shared server used for analysis ... to one with 32 GB of RAM and 8 TB of storage. I think they could have done better, personally, but it's telling how thin budgets are stretched in a lot of real world cases.