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Pretty hard. ECC ram will work as normal RAM on non-ECC cpus. To use ECC you need a Xeon (or amd equivalent) processor and supporting motherboard. You can get t
by timpattinson 14y ago
Pretty hard.
ECC ram will work as normal RAM on non-ECC cpus.
To use ECC you need a Xeon (or amd equivalent)
processor and supporting motherboard.
You can get the Xeon equivalent of the latest i7 cheaper than the i7, you (i think) still need to get a server mobo though.
- martinced 14y agoIt's a bit of a pain to find ECC mobos for desktops. I looked for some when I built my last workstation seen that I was putting 16 GB in but ended up using stupid normal RAM : ( Now between SSH, SCP, SSL / TLS, Git, diffs before commits, unit tests, etc. I'd be really unlikely to have a bit flip really "destroying my work" : ) So, yeah, 16 GB of non-ECC memory on a Linux workstation which regularly reaches 6 months of uptime: no need to enter in a paranoia either for a desktop/workstation. For servers, ECC is great...