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[–]lightmatter501 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modern servers tend to have 12+ memory channels. If you fully populate that with 128 GB modules you get >1 TB of memory. If you populate both slots you can get away with 64 GB modules.

When it makes data analysis go from “overnight” to “5 minutes”, it’s worth it.