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It's difficult as a home user to find ECC memory, harder to make sure it actually works in your hardware configuration, and near-impossible to find ECC memory t
by Filligree 2y ago
It's difficult as a home user to find ECC memory, harder to make sure it actually works in your hardware configuration, and near-impossible to find ECC memory that doesn't require lower speeds than what you can get for $50 on amazon.
I would very much like to put ECC memory in my home server, but I couldn't figure it out this generation. After four hours I decided I had better things to do with my time.
- Jedd 2y agoIndeed. I'd started to add an aside to the effect of 'ten years ago it was probably easier to go ECC'. I'll add it here instead. A decade ago if you wanted ECC your choice was basically Xeon, and all() Xeon motherboards would accept ECC. I agree that these days it's much more complex, since you are ineluctably going get sucked into the despair-spiral of trying to work out what combination of Ryzen + motherboard + ECC RAM will give you actual, demonstrable* ECC (with correction, not just detection).