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I'm genuinely curious, why is it your number one feature? I know that ECC provides error correction, but aside from server use, is it really that critical?
by adl 12y ago
I'm genuinely curious, why is it your number one feature? I know that ECC provides error correction, but aside from server use, is it really that critical?
- joosters 12y agoMemory errors are a significant cause [citation needed!] of system instability. If you want a reliable machine, even a desktop, that is going to keep working, then ECC is very useful. If you've decided upon ECC as a must, then it would be great for a system builder tool to then show you options based upon that choice.
- walshemj 12y agoAnd for some high end use case you might want to be looking at xenon's or even dual xenon's. I could see a big data or HPC developer wanting to have a desktop that used the same processor as the cluster they are writing for - mainly in the case where your tuning for max performance and want to able to develop using the same complier flags.
- Freaky 12y agoIt's less about the stability and more about data integrity. Crashes suck, but they suck a hell of a lot less than corrupt filesystems and backups.
- dclowd9901 12y agoI think I'm the vein of this product's philosophy, maybe a "stability" or "reliability" metric along with the performance and price metrics.
- dnm 12y agoThis is an old page, but convinced me years ago to go with ECC memory whenever I build a new machine. http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html http://cr.yp.to/hardware/ecc.html He hasn't updated is build in a while, though. http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html http://cr.yp.to/hardware/build-20090123.html