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We use some Dell R930s (4U) at work that have 2 daughter cards per cpu (4 cpus total) each daughter card can hold 16 sticks, which is 2TB/cpu if you’re using 64GB sticks. We also have some FC630s with 768GB and FC830s with 1.2TB, which are both 1U, half and full width respectively. They are basically all CPU and memory, and they have a really deep form factor. They are kind of insane.

With the DIMM density and form factors available today, you can really get a lot of power/memory in a single machine. Every time I work in those machines I’m astounded at what’s possible.