Hey!
We are a medium size company with a webshop of around 250.000 monthly visitors. We are currently using Wordpress (yes, I know...) so you can imagine the database size (around 4gb and 15 million rows). We want to use the live database in our development because it mostly prevents unforeseen issues. The server we are currently using is a i5 4690 and 12gb of RAM and it's reaching its limits and sometimes webpages load really slow. For comparison: our live server is a 64 thread, 128gb RAM machine.
We need a new development server for using a samba share to develop on, and around 2 to 3 developers that are constantly doing request to the server.