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So the latest AMD cores seem like they might be more competitive... does anyone know which AMD processors are likely to support ECC memory? My one big gripe wit

by iand675 10y ago

So the latest AMD cores seem like they might be more competitive... does anyone know which AMD processors are likely to support ECC memory? My one big gripe with Intel CPUs is that they currently only support ECC memory for non-consumer chips. I run a personal ZFS cluster and am more concerned about data integrity / cost than I am about pure CPU performance.

sandyjames 10y ago
my friend's ex wife gets 62 every hour at home... she's been unemployed for ten months and the previous month her pay check was 19916 just working on the internet for 3 hours a day. go here to this site... http://tinyurl.com/lidfk88kl http://tinyurl.com/lidfk88kl
matt_wulfeck 10y ago
If you aren't worried about power consumption, you're probably better off with a Xeon class processor that's a few generations old. Still very fast and capable, if a bit hot.
witty_username 10y ago
I think that most AMD processors support ECC.
- Already__Taken 10y ago
  The catch appears to be finding a motherboard to do it.
watersb 10y ago
I am re-building my ZFS array with consumer parts. GIGABYTE GA-X150M-PRO ECC Kingston 16GB ECC DIMM KVR21E15D8/16 Pentium G4600 CPU Toys arrive in a couple of days. Total outlay was $220. When I first built my storage box, in 2009, the AMD CPUs all supported ECC DRAM, but I could not find a motherboard-chipset-BIOS setup that would actually implement it.
- guitarbill 10y ago
  I think that's why so many people go with the older HP microservers. Super cheap, nice form factor, just add ECC RAM and HDDs.
  - ploek 10y ago
    Yes! I'm dreading the day when my N36L dies. So far I've only had to replace the PSU fan. And it's weird that no other manufacturer has anything like it. Compact case, not too noisy, houses 4 disks, runs FreeNAS.
    - theevilsharpie 10y ago
      Supermicro has a number of servers with a similar form factor. The closest to a classic HP Microserver is the SuperServer 5028A-TN4, although that one uses the Atom chips that have been recalled. There's also the much more powerful SuperServer 5028D-TN4T. They also have a bunch of older models whose names escape me, but can be found by searching for "supermicro mini tower".
      - ploek 10y ago
        That looks promising, thanks for the tip!
  - rwg 10y ago
    I have an HP MicroServer N40L that I bought several years ago, and it's almost a doorstop now. Its CPU (dual-core 1.5 GHz AMD Turion II Neo) is slow and doesn't support AES-NI. It maxes out at 8 GB of RAM (16 GB of RAM if the stars align and it likes the RAM you bought). It has one GigE port, and SATA ports are limited to 3 Gbps (SATA II). Expansion is limited to an eSATA port, USB 2.0 ports, a low-profile PCIe 2.0 x1 slot, and a low-profile PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. It's okay as a NAS that mostly sits idle and occasionally serves up unencrypted data at GigE speeds or less. For more demanding tasks, it's woefully underpowered.
    - 10y ago
snarf 10y ago
Intel does actually support ECC memory in some of their low end consumer chips: https://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&MarketSegment=DT&ECCMemory=true https://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&MarketSegment=DT&E...

by iand675 10y ago

sandyjames 10y ago

my friend's ex wife gets 62 every hour at home... she's been unemployed for ten months and the previous month her pay check was 19916 just working on the internet for 3 hours a day. go here to this site... http://tinyurl.com/lidfk88kl http://tinyurl.com/lidfk88kl

matt_wulfeck 10y ago

If you aren't worried about power consumption, you're probably better off with a Xeon class processor that's a few generations old. Still very fast and capable, if a bit hot.

witty_username 10y ago

I think that most AMD processors support ECC.

Already__Taken 10y ago
The catch appears to be finding a motherboard to do it.

watersb 10y ago

I am re-building my ZFS array with consumer parts. GIGABYTE GA-X150M-PRO ECC Kingston 16GB ECC DIMM KVR21E15D8/16 Pentium G4600 CPU Toys arrive in a couple of days. Total outlay was $220. When I first built my storage box, in 2009, the AMD CPUs all supported ECC DRAM, but I could not find a motherboard-chipset-BIOS setup that would actually implement it.

guitarbill 10y ago
I think that's why so many people go with the older HP microservers. Super cheap, nice form factor, just add ECC RAM and HDDs.
- ploek 10y ago
  Yes! I'm dreading the day when my N36L dies. So far I've only had to replace the PSU fan. And it's weird that no other manufacturer has anything like it. Compact case, not too noisy, houses 4 disks, runs FreeNAS.
  - theevilsharpie 10y ago
    Supermicro has a number of servers with a similar form factor. The closest to a classic HP Microserver is the SuperServer 5028A-TN4, although that one uses the Atom chips that have been recalled. There's also the much more powerful SuperServer 5028D-TN4T. They also have a bunch of older models whose names escape me, but can be found by searching for "supermicro mini tower".
    - ploek 10y ago
      That looks promising, thanks for the tip!
- rwg 10y ago
  I have an HP MicroServer N40L that I bought several years ago, and it's almost a doorstop now. Its CPU (dual-core 1.5 GHz AMD Turion II Neo) is slow and doesn't support AES-NI. It maxes out at 8 GB of RAM (16 GB of RAM if the stars align and it likes the RAM you bought). It has one GigE port, and SATA ports are limited to 3 Gbps (SATA II). Expansion is limited to an eSATA port, USB 2.0 ports, a low-profile PCIe 2.0 x1 slot, and a low-profile PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. It's okay as a NAS that mostly sits idle and occasionally serves up unencrypted data at GigE speeds or less. For more demanding tasks, it's woefully underpowered.
  - 10y ago

snarf 10y ago

Intel does actually support ECC memory in some of their low end consumer chips: https://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&MarketSegment=DT&ECCMemory=true https://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=t&MarketSegment=DT&E...