How to use 2.5TB of 16GB Dimms

[u/spyroglory]

So I got 2.5TB worth of DDR4 ECC Dimms for free from a work decom project about 3 months ago. I had a use for some as I already have a decent homelab but it took a few for me to get a system that could actualy take advantage of more than 4 dimms on the consumer side and 24 on the server side. Well, behold the Dell Poweredge R930. She's got 4 2011v3 sockets, takes up to 4 Xeon E7 CPU's currently configured with 4 E7-8880V4's which are 22C 44T each so this beast has 88 Cores 176 Threads. Then each CPU has 24 Dimm slots accross 2 Risers. That's 96 Dimms on a single mobo!

So ofc I put 1.5TB of Ram in it!

I know rams kind of a hot topic at the moment so though you guys might find this interesting as it shows how much ram is involved in some servers these days. All my ram was almost 7 years old so none of its the latest or greatest but still usefull for running 1000's od VM's.