> DDR4 RAM is around $1.20/GB. Four hours of engineering time (very roughly $1000) buys either 800 GB of RAM or 12 TB of storage. $1000 doesn't buy you 800GB m

> DDR4 RAM is around $1.20/GB. Four hours of engineering time (very roughly $1000) buys either 800 GB of RAM or 12 TB of storage. $1000 doesn't buy you 800GB more of the RAM that your server likely takes, which is likely to run $3-6/GB ($3 for uncertified, $6 for motherboard manufacturer certified RAM), plus $0.50-$1/GB for the DIMM slots over and above your baseline RAM config. It can still sometimes be smart to "throw hardware at it", but I don't think you can go from 128 GB of RAM today to 1 TB of RAM tomorrow for $1K in most cases.