Current memory installed

2GB sticks, currently has 8GB on board (four sticks).

 

www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134328

 

These currently sell for $40-50 each via eBay and surplus sources.

 

When we bought these servers, Jonathan Howard offered his thoughts about the memory:

 

"Running down memory (motherboard holds up to 128GB) options, however it’s DDR2 ECC (800 max), it supports 1/2/4/8GB modules, however sometimes DDR2 ECC can be a little pricey. Getting to 16 or 32 is easy (more than enough for an amazing file server, however if we want to do virtualization we should be looking at 64GB+. We'll likely want to stay at 64GB max (128GB would be 16x8GB modules, and that ’ s a big chunk of coin). "

 

MOTHERBOARD MEMORY SPECS:

 

Memory Capacity

-Sixteen 240-pin DIMM sockets

-Support up to 128GB DDR2 800/667/533 MHz memory *

-Dual channel memory bus

 

For Single CPU: Memory must be populated in CPU1 DIMMs only

 

For Dual CPUs: Recommended that memory be populated equally in adjacent memory banks

 

Memory Type

-DDR2 800/667/533/400 MHz Reg. ECC SDRAM 72-bit, 240-pin gold-plated DIMMs

 

DIMM Sizes

-256 MB, 512 MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB

 

Memory Voltage

-1.8V only

Done