@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup?
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@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup? I used to think about how useful it was when it was still affordable. But now that's completely unthinkable.
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@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup? I used to think about how useful it was when it was still affordable. But now that's completely unthinkable.
for my current main #homelab system, I did go the expensive ECC route. Well, I thought it was expensive about a year ago. Main reason is that in my #dayjob we do have quite a number of systems reporting both correctable and uncorrectable ECC errors from time to time.
Thus, I do think it's worthwhile but at the moment not so much
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@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup? I used to think about how useful it was when it was still affordable. But now that's completely unthinkable.
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@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup? I used to think about how useful it was when it was still affordable. But now that's completely unthinkable.
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@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup? I used to think about how useful it was when it was still affordable. But now that's completely unthinkable.
@felixule I’ve seen both MCA (machine check assertions) when ECC RAM on a failing stick couldn’t be corrected, and corrected errors) in the 10+ years I’ve self hosted, on datacentre quality servers. I have lost data to BitRot prior to switching to ECC hardware, backups, and ZFS. Since then, sometime in 2013, nothing lost. @homelab
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@adingbatponder @homelab I don't think that's going to happen right now. If anything, I need DDR5 SO-DIMM ECC. I could buy a car for that right now.
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@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup? I used to think about how useful it was when it was still affordable. But now that's completely unthinkable.
@felixule I get stuff from https://www.bargainhardware.eu/de/ but even 2nd hand might be unobtanium these days
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@homelab How many of you out there use ECC RAM, and how often has it proven itself in your setup? I used to think about how useful it was when it was still affordable. But now that's completely unthinkable.
@felixule @homelab there was only one time I seeked out ECC, and it was when I was building out a whitebox server for VMware ESXi some time ago. Pretty sure it was a supermicro server and case chassis. The board took I think DDR3 ECC and I spent the money on it. It never made a difference. These days, with ESXi being owned by broadcom, and there being better, easier open-source alternatives available (promxox for starters) I don't bother with ESXi, and how picky it is with hardware. Off the shelf stuff, mini-pcs in particular are doing me quite well right now.
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