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> with six slots of DDR2 memory capable of handling 48GB RAM 1) that was a premium motherboard, 2) 16 ram sticks were way more expensive per GB than smaller st
by throwaway81523 4y ago
> with six slots of DDR2 memory capable of handling 48GB RAM
1) that was a premium motherboard, 2) 16 ram sticks were way more expensive per GB than smaller sticks. I think you have the timeframe about right (2008?), but where I worked we had 1000s of servers built on PC motherboards (cheap) with 4 slots holding 1GB each. 4GB sticks existed but cost a lot more per GB and were hard to find, and our motherboards needed some kind of bios change to use them. We did manage to upgrade a few machines to 16gb and they were useful.