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I wish there was something similarly affordable that came with ECC ram.
by gkhartman 3y ago
I wish there was something similarly affordable that came with ECC ram.
- nine_k 3y agoVery much so. So far I resort to aftermarket Supernicro ITX boards with fanless Intel CPUs of yore; they support ECC and can be had for $150-200. Intel stubbornly keeps ECC support for server CPUs only. I wish newer AMD-based compact boards were available, offering unofficial ECC support, because Zen-series CPUs have ECC support even in desktop and laptop models. Likely they are, I just did not look hard enough.
- wmf 3y agoThis hardware does support in-band ECC but I don't know if the included "BIOS" lets you turn it on.
- ramraj07 3y agoI am aware of ECCs purpose but never learned what it’s practical advantage is.. does it matter that badly for a hobby server?
- code_biologist 3y agoIt matters to the degree you care about the data on that server. Watching ZFS checksum correction or ECC logs is always very enlightening. I have a TrueNAS box with critical stuff (offsite backup of it too, of course) and there are not a lot of errors but enough that I’m glad I went with ECC.
- rasz 3y ago>I am aware of ECCs purpöse but never learned what it’s practical advantage is.. does it matter that badly for a hoby server? Its not that importánt.