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For about 2x the price of an Rpi4+accessories I picked up a used Lenovo workstation and an SSD. 16gb ecc ram and four cores. Much nicer than my attempts to use
by karatestomp 7y ago
For about 2x the price of an Rpi4+accessories I picked up a used Lenovo workstation and an SSD. 16gb ecc ram and four cores. Much nicer than my attempts to use Pis for various server-like things.
- whatsmyusername 7y agoDell Inspiron workstations work well too. I used one for FreeNAS for years because it had ECC.
- remlov 7y agoI fell for the ECC myth as well when using ZFS on XigmaNAS, but got schooled here on HN a while back: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/ https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...
- karatestomp 7y agoZFS without ECC may not be any worse than any other filesystem without ECC, but it's still nice to have on a system you want to run all the time and deal with your files.
- Scramblejams 7y agoI have a box with 128 gigs of ECC RAM and I see a handful of corrected bit flips every year. Ain't no myth, just gonna be a crapshoot where those bits fall and what effect they have.