Does servers to >$1000 really have a memory limit of 4GB?

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Published on 2010-03-22T18:38:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 18:41 UTC
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Hi,

I am looking for a server, and when I look at the specs some of the servers can only handle 4GB. Other can handle 8GB or 16GB, and others 64GB.

Can that really be true?

Is this really a hardware limitation, or are they disabling it in the BIOS, so there is no way to use 16GB on a 4GB supported server?

An example is the Dell PowerEdge SC 440. Only 4GB supported, they say.

Would Linux allow me to use 16GB on a 4GB server?

Sandra

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