> 2TB of RAM in a workstation will run you at least $30k The trick here is to use a board with 32 dimm sockets -- which requires an oddball formfactor-- but it

> 2TB of RAM in a workstation will run you at least $30k The trick here is to use a board with 32 dimm sockets -- which requires an oddball formfactor-- but it radically lowers the cost of reaching 2TB. But your point remains, change your target to 4TB ram (which really isn't an absurd amount of ram) and the astronomical costs come back (unless you go to 96 dimm socket systems, which have their own astronomical costs).