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I don’t use ECC in my home server because ECC-supported motherboards are still more expensive than their regular counterparts, and ECC ram is also more expensiv
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
I don’t use ECC in my home server because ECC-supported motherboards are still more expensive than their regular counterparts, and ECC ram is also more expensive. And of course this is only if your CPU supported it, which is basically not any prosumer Intel CPU.
Now that AMD CPUs are taking a big market share, hopefully we see a better market for ECC hardware.
- snuxoll 6y agoIf you’re building new, then, yeah, getting a board and CPU with ECC support will cost you. This is why most homelabbers buy server gear that’s been decommissioned, my R3/4/520’s with Ivy Bridge-EN chips may not be top of the line, but they’re affordable.
- theevilsharpie 6y agoUnbuffered ECC memory is definitely more expensive, but ECC support on AMD motherboards is common. I'm currently running ECC on an ASRock B450M Pro4, which was one of the least expensive AMD Ryzen motherboards available at the time I purchased it (without going to the very down-market A320 series).