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We have 3 hosts at 32GB RAM also. Agreed the price gap is just a bit too much going to that next level, but it's dropping slowly. We just got a Dell R800 (?I think that was the model) and when pricing the 64GB RAM it was actually almost an affordable and cost-effective option, but I don't remember if that was still cramming it full of 4GB chips or if it stepped up to 8GB chips. On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 20:07 +0000, Ehren Benson wrote: > > I am seeing huge memory price increases as you scale up in amount > (4gb dell dimms are about $42/gb whereas 8gb dell dimms are $120/gb). > So I am just currious how much memory you use in your virtual hosts > and how many hosts you have? > > Right now we have 2 with 32gb each, at the rate of the price slope, I > could almost add a whole new node to the cluster w/32gb for around 8K > (or 2 nodes w/32gb for 16K) rather than upgrading both existing nodes > to 64gb for 14K. > > Yikes! > > Ehren J. Benson, MCSE > > Windows Systems Administrator > > Department of Physics and Astronomy > > Michigan State University > > 1209 A Biomed Phys Sci > > > > [log in to unmask] > > 517-884-5469 > >