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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by Dylan16807 on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:39PM (#13910537)
Make sure you're looking at updated prices for ram too. 16x16GB of registered ECC DDR3 is about the same price and enormously faster.
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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by sologoub on Sunday March 19, 2017 @09:28PM (#13911008)
Sure, but I believe we were limited by the available chassis to a lot lower than 16 slots.
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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by Dylan16807 on Monday March 20, 2017 @02:13AM (#13912131)
Well the first google result for "1u 16 dimms" is a refurbished chassis+motherboard+PSU for a hundred bucks. Brand new costs more but not terribly so; the main cost is the ram whether you go 8 slots or 16.

These SSDs have situational uses but unless you want 10+ TB in one server you can get a system with >50% as much actual RAM for the same price.

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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by sologoub on Monday March 20, 2017 @07:00PM (#13918384)
It's not the cost. We ran standardized chassis, so whatever our ops had is what they had...
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