it can be a complete beast if you want it. 8 slots for raid drives, a terabyte of ram. There’s like 10 fans in the box. I figured it should be able to run my excel pretty well. From what I can tell there’s really only a few Params to determine the right ram. Speed 4800, rdimm (whatever this means) and 5ddr (whatever that means). I found the Dell part on a ram website. They are selling it for 114 and Dell is selling it for 1000
For the most part RAID is not RAM but a Hard Drive of sorts that pulls from both the HD and RAM. My EddieZ Win10 Trading Rig is at least 5 years old and has no problem whatsoever with multiple windows of TradeStation, DynamicTrader, TradingView and Excel open and very active. But mine is not baaaaasic. Get what you pay for.
Just an idea....if you haven't found your problem yet. I was looking at your performance post from the first page. In the disk section, it says that disk 0 (your main) is a hard disk drive and not an ssd like your disk 1 (I have 2 disks as well and they both say ssd). If disk 0 is your main and windows and the rest of your apps are loaded on that, it is gonna feel like it is taking forever to access your apps on your machine. Also if your windows paging file is on there, that is also gonna feel like everything is taking forever for you to do something. You need to make the ssd your main hard drive and the other one the backup if you wish to keep your current configuration. You might be better off changing out the hdd with another ssd so you have quickness with both drives. Dell support probably can help you with that by either guiding you on getting all the programs on disk 0 and moving them to the ssd or by having you send the whole unit back. Hope it helps!
Yeah $1000 is insane. DELL doesn't make the RAM anyway, they're all made by only a few manufacturers, Hynix, Samsung, maybe a few others. You would just need 1x 32GB DDR5-4800 RDIMM. Dell uses part number AC239378. Maybe just roll with the 1x32gb if it's good enough, but if you can score another stick for $114, that's a pretty good price.
I think I saw you complain about fan noise somewhere else on the board. I went the other way recently having resisted it for a while and bought a nice custom stationary rig. Huge boost in performance and it's so quiet I can't even notice it's on. Huge contrast to my old laptop where the fan noise could be heard in other rooms of the house. I like the redundancy and convenience with a laptop, but realistically, I'm not trading at the beach or coffee shops anyway.