Absolutely not. You can purchase a system with 1TB of ram, and some decent CPUs etc for ~25k. My lab just did this. That's far overpriced. 133k is closer to what you would spend if you used the machine with 1tb "in the cloud".

I still remember the first advertisement I saw for 1TB of disk space. I think it was about 1997 and about the biggest individual drive you could buy was 2GB. The system was the size of a couple of server racks and they put 500 of those disks in it. It cost over $1M for the whole system.

That's insanely overpriced. A 128gb lrdimm is $1000. So a tb on a commodity 8 mem slot board would be 8k plus a few thousand for the cpu and chassis.

Note that when you start talking about multiple 10s of TiB of ram, you start having to buy super high density dims which are very expensive (because not many of them get made and anyone who needs one has lots of money)

Yes, true. But at that point you have to run on exotic 4p/8p systems since you start running out of memory channels.

256GB DIMMs go for ~3k, so 133k for just 1TB is still a bit much.