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How Important is ECC Memory?
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Anecdotal evidence, but I have been self hosting for 3 years and never had a single problem without ECC memory.
I think the thing is if you are serving thousands of requests constantly like a "real website" and/or have financial reliance on it then ECC memory becomes a huge ROI draw. If you are running a media server + a few services for one household, ECC memory is very overkill in the vast majority of cases and you won't see a difference.
For what i know DDR5 comes with ECC by default, so this won't be much of an issue in a few years.
It is not exactly ecc, you should check it out, I don't remember what was different
It's not end to end, it corrects the bits in the cell, but if the data is corrupted on the wires you're screwed.
Ahh thanks, I think I should put the funds into a better backup strategy then :)