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16GB of ECC memory for servers is a lot more expensive than your Mac Mini's memory. I recently spent £250 on 2x 4GB DIMMs for a Dell Poweredge server[1] (ok DDR
by dan1234 13y ago
16GB of ECC memory for servers is a lot more expensive than your Mac Mini's memory. I recently spent £250 on 2x 4GB DIMMs for a Dell Poweredge server[1] (ok DDR2 is older and therefore more expensive, but still). The same configuration for my Mac Mini came in at around £50[2]
[1]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=36C1FA30A5CA7304 http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=36C1...
[2]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=9137AB4EA5CA7304 http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=9137...
- p1esk 13y agoActually prices for ECC memory are comparable with regular desktop RAM - both are around $300 for 32GB (4x8GB) sets: ECC memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007952%20600083963&IsNodeId=1&name=32GB%20%284%20x%208GB%29 http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=... Regular memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007611%20600083963%204802&IsNodeId=1&name=Top%20Sellers http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=...
- corresation 13y agoYou paid a significant premium for that older memory (a funny paradox of the industry). As P1esk mentioned, you could have gotten 32GB for around the same price. Straight from Dell, paying their inflated prices, on a new R210 it's $173 to go to 16GB of ECC memory. I've bought a number of large servers recently (using owned servers at colocation in combination with virtual hosts for DR and geo-sharding), and always equip them with 192GB or more. The pricing of memory is so incredibly low it makes no sense otherwise, yet all of these dedicated server vendors act as if 2GB is the norm and 4GB is the advanced upgrade.