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> While I obviously don’t want my server to corrupt my data in RAM, I’ve also been using computers for the past 30 years without ECC RAM, and I’ve never noticed
by louwrentius 4y ago
> While I obviously don’t want my server to corrupt my data in RAM, I’ve also been using computers for the past 30 years without ECC RAM, and I’ve never noticed data corruption.
You never noticed also exactly because you can’t know about data corruption if you don’t run with ECC memory.
- Jedd 4y agoPrecisely. My trust in a non-ECC machine is much lower. I've had slow on-disk data corruption that I've tracked down to failing memory in retail-grade hardware, and it's been in a collection of large media files being sync'ed between machines. Those corruptions tend to be un-noticed at the time, and are effectively impossible (without original sources) to resolve later on, but happily also tend to have minimal impact. Either way, I've been using computers longer than TFA and wouldn't build a home lab box without ECC.
- louwrentius 4y agoI should write yet another blog article why ECC memory matters…