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I don't think 250GB will fit in memory on any reasonable sized box. What world do you live in?

A world where people use real servers.

All of our physical boxes have 256gb+ of RAM.

They run VM's via XenServer for most of our uses, but our production DB's run on bare metal as they need the RAM and disk performance.

An r720 from dell or similar model from dell with 600GB*2 SSD intel s3500DC model, 20 cores & 256GB of RAM will go for 5k-7k. You can bump this to 386GB of ram without going above 10k.

And up to 768GB if you go with 32GB LRDIMMs for about $14k (intel oem chassis).

When I changed the country to Japan, the sticker price jumped from 2000 USD to 15,000 USD eq. for a very basic system. I am just at a loss as to what can explain this disparity. Guess I will have to call up my vendor to get a comparable quote.

My tip is always to try to get in contact with a couple of reseller and play them out against each other in the price department.

If you are looking for larger purchases 50k+ USD than you should talk directly with Dell, HP or comparable vendor and put them into the play off for who you choose :)

I always do that. I have worked with Strategic Sourcing for a while...so... ;-)

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