On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:38 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[email protected]> wrote: > 196 G RAM <- this was $45k alone
You may want to shop around, either between models, or even vendors. When I did this a few months ago, I was initially looking at the Dell T710. The line item cost to get 64 GB RAM on that thing was several thousand dollars. Paul Hutchings suggested I check out the R510. That cost to get 64 GB RAM on that model was $900. So there can be pretty dramatic differences between models even on the same vendor. (And sure, the T710 can hold more RAM, but for the cost of putting that RAM in the T710, I could have bought *several* R510 servers. So unless you have a workload that needs everything to be on a single box, it likely is more cost effective to go that route.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
