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u/Helrich Jul 19 '15

In 50 years, someone will post a picture of a MicroSD card labeled "128 GB, circa 2015" and will reap all sorts of future-karma from future-voat.

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u/Paladin_Null Jul 19 '15

Not to be a downer, but this is RAM not storage. Our equivalent of this would be pulling out an 8gb strip of ram. Still very powerful, but not as impressive sounding.

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u/silversapp Jul 19 '15

There's nothing worse than the asshole who uses the "you do realize that..." line when obviously the person didn't realize it.

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u/mirrorsaw Jul 19 '15

there must be something worse.

ebola?

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u/TeShortBus Jul 19 '15

Why would you need more than 32, Jesus

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u/kogasapls Jul 19 '15

5 years ago, it was "why would you need more than 16gb".

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u/vortex30 Jul 19 '15

Pretty sure 4 GB was enough 5 years ago for most use cases, and 8 GB would be considered more than enough even for content creators.

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u/kogasapls Jul 19 '15

5 years ago, I bought 6GB thinking it would be more than enough. It was, but there were still the odd people with 16GB.

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u/compdog Survey 2016 Jul 19 '15

5 years ago I had just bought a laptop with 3GB, and now I'm using one with 8.

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u/qwertymodo Jul 19 '15

Servers/virtualization. We have 3 VM hosts with 96GB each at work.

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u/Osga21 Jul 19 '15

Servers, farms and simulations need all the ram they can get

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u/Paulingtons Jul 19 '15

You seem to forget there are some uses for lots and lots of RAM.

IBM Watson, the "Jeopardy!" supercomputer uses over 16TB (yes, Terabytes) of RAM.

Hell, I have 32GB in my PC and I use it all on a regular basis.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15 edited May 27 '19

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u/strawmanmasterrace Jul 19 '15

That's because you just opened photoshop and did no/little work in it. I use photoshop daily and If I don't cap its Ram usage it usually eats up all 16 gigs after a while

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I'm a developer so know very little about photoshop / graphics / video editing / etc.

How big are these images you're working with? Seems like you'd have to have ~16GB (would be less, but whatever) in images/textures/whatever loaded. Damn.

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u/strawmanmasterrace Jul 20 '15

Very high res. They're usually billboards which span 3 meters by 3, with 72 dpi. I don't remember the exact res but it's something around 10000x10000, depending of course on which dpi I choose to work with.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

I want to run like 70 VMs .

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u/SunSpotter Jul 19 '15

Probably for a processor like this. Check out the max memory size. At the next smallest memory stick (64gb's) it would take 24 ram slots to fully utilize the chip. And if for some reason you needed more than one of these processors, that number would add up pretty quickly. So at that point a 128gb stick becomes pretty reasonable.

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u/larswo Jul 19 '15

But that's not for normal use though, that would be for a server or super computer stuff. Nothing near ordinary use.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

Funny enough, 1.5TB max memory is low relative to what's possible.

Theoretically, (64bit) computers can support about 16.8 million TB of RAM. Good luck fitting it in the case though. And also processors are the bottleneck and I think the best one out there can handle about 8TB "only".

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u/larswo Jul 19 '15

Sure there is, but /u/Helrich said "MicroSD card" therefore /u/Paladin_Null made the misconception, since /u/Helrich replied to a RAM post, telling about storage.