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I personally use my PC as lab for building applications. I tend to run a bunch of VMs and one thing I am always short of is memory. CPU cores were more of a pro
by lmilcin 5y ago
I personally use my PC as lab for building applications. I tend to run a bunch of VMs and one thing I am always short of is memory. CPU cores were more of a problem in the past but now there is a plenty of cores available. I am currently using 128GB and I would definitely wish more, but probably I wouldn't know what to do with 1TB.
But that doesn't mean there aren't others that may have different use cases.
- derefr 5y agoIf you're running a bunch of VMs, technically you could do that just as well with a cluster of smaller PCs. (No individual VM needs 1TB, after all.) I see a lot of people on /r/homelab using RPi clusters for this use-case.
- Beltiras 5y agoI'm quite sure there's a database admin somewhere salivating at the idea of having that much RAM.
- eloff 5y agoI've also been using 128GB for the last few years on my dev PC. It's great for running VMs, but honestly I could have had 64Gb and would have only rarely noticed the difference. My replacement PC (actually an Alienware laptop) will only have 64GB. I don't think I'll miss it.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoWhich RAM brand and configuration are you using? How did it cost?
- lmilcin 5y agoI have never been able to detect any subjective difference between different brands of RAM chips for consumer products. It is probably one of the most boring components. I think choice of your chassis has more influence on performance of your PC than particular brand of RAM chips. About the only choice you have is to decide whether to go ECC or non-ECC. As all my loads are for development and learning purposes, I decided to save on RAM and buy non-ECC, which makes entire system much cheaper.