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Does ECC really make a difference in practice? Is it even worth the price? I don't have ECC in my iMac and I'm sure it'd do quite well if I used it as a web ser
by cmer 14y ago
Does ECC really make a difference in practice? Is it even worth the price? I don't have ECC in my iMac and I'm sure it'd do quite well if I used it as a web server...
- fleitz 14y agoIt depends on your data, if you don't mind single bit errors in your data non-ECC is fine. If your data has to be perfect then you probably need ECC.
- quadhome 14y agohttp://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html tl;dr, yes, ECC does matter— a lot more than you'd guess!
- alberth 14y agoDo you run your iMac 24/7/365 and have customer data on with such data being frequently accessed? ECC exists to prevent data corruption so that you don't have to restart your server. Since I imagine you restart you iMac near daily, not having ECC isn't a problem.
- cmer 14y agoI actually never restart my iMac. Once every 3-4 months I'd say. And not because it crashed, because I need to for software updates.
- sciurus 14y agoThe value of ECC memory has little to do with how long your computer runs or how frequently data is accessed. Restarting a computer won't prevent the problems that ECC corrects. ECC memory is designed to detect and repair memory corruption caused by electrical/magnetic interference or problems with the memory hardware.