[lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB

[Matt James]

Dell Precision 7920 supports up to 3TB  :-)
http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/04/shared-content~data-sheets~en/documents~precision-7920-tower-spec-sheet.pdf?c=us&l=en&s=bsd
They even have a rack mount option if you want to go way overboard.



On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Stephen Kraus <ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I run a Dell Precision T5500 with 144GB ECC DDR3 and a Dell Precision
> M7510 and Chromium chews up more memory than AutoDesk.
>
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth my year-old mid-level Dell Optiplex (7030) supports
>> up to 64 GB and an (mumble) drive - the one that's on a small
>> daughterboard. The small form factor system itself was under $1k, and the
>> disk and extra 32GB of memory (46 GB total) added another $500. I wish I
>> could have gotten the system without the windows disk though. :-(
>>
>> Chromium still manages to consume all of the memory.
>>
>> It's a nice dev system since that much memory allows me to run multiple
>> virtualbox instances. For instance the 8 GB and multiple cores required for
>> a Cloudera Express Hadoop instance is a major drag on my other systems but
>> it's nothing on this system.
>>
>> Obviously Dell sells servers that support even more memory (for a lot
>> more money) or you could build your own. If that's what you need then
>> that's what you'll need to do. But for most of us 64 GB is more than enough
>> and this is solid hardware for the price.
>>
>> (For the original question - it sounded like 128GB (or more) is ideal but
>> it's only needed for a quarterly import. A system with 64 GB might be a
>> good compromise between cost and wear on the SSD.)
>>
>> (Dell has three levels. Inspiron is the consumer grade systems. Optiplex
>> is the business class systems - it has beefed up hardware so it's better
>> for systems that are up 24/7. I don't remember the name of the server class
>> systems. Email me directly if you want to know what's currently on sale -
>> it can be cheaper to buy the prepackaged special and then customize it than
>> to make a per-spec order.)
>>
>> Bear
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 7:02 AM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Take a look at SuperMicro. In general:
>>> https://www.supermicro.com/ResourceApps/MB_matrix.aspx
>>>
>>> One example:
>>> https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C420/X11SRA-RF.cfm
>>> https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C620/X11SPW-TF.cfm
>>>
>>> FYI, you might note the chipset of the boards which meet your criteria,
>>> and then do web searches based on chipset.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Lee Woodworth <blug-mail at duboulder.com>
>>> To: Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <
>>> lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
>>> Sent: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 08:57:17 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Subject: [lug] FYI systems w/ more than 128GB
>>> Just a note for anyone thinking about large ram amounts in a single
>>> system.
>>> In looking at motherboards and systems on the web I haven't seen any
>>> intel i7
>>> or amd ryzen systems that could be configured for more than 128GB.
>>> Motherboards
>>> that take an i7 or a xeon cpu have all had a max of 128G for the i7 and
>>> max
>>> of 256G or more for the xeon.
>>> This is a bummer for a database load process that isn't cpu constrained
>>> with
>>> a low-end i5 but could benefit from lots of ram. A xeon is just overkill.
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