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Recently I acquired 64 sticks of 4GB DDR3 ECC RAM from a friend of mine for a cheap $15. After recieving the RAM I knew immediately what to do. I powered down The Grid, my proxmox server, and immediately got to work on upgrading it from 32GB to a whopping 96GB of RAM. Now now, I know, "96GB isn't all that much, my hypervisor runs 384GB of RAM". I get it, I'm a bit behind. But it's what I got! And so far I've put (including buying the server) $115 into the 2nd iteration of The Grid.

Installing the RAM was pretty easy. It just came down to taking the 32GB of RAM I put in there out and put in all 24 sticks of DDR3 ECC goodness. I gotta say, It looks beautiful with all 24 sticks installed.

After the RAM was installed the machine booted up perfectly fine and it showed all 96GB of RAM just fine. The machine runs perfectly fine with the upgraded RAM. All that's next is to get better processors in it, as currently it only has a total of 8 Threads across both CPUs. Which is... yikes

Now the server is back in the rack where it belongs. As to what happened with the previous "The Grid" it was removed from the rack and given to a friend of mine as I needed something beefier. Plus a $100 HP ProLiant server is pretty neat. Thanks MIT Swapfest!