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A comment on Platter Crash on an IBM Death Star HD (2003).

Re:Platter Crash on an IBM Death Star HD (2003) by mjevans on Sunday November 08, 2015 @09:22PM (#10531065)
Back before I could afford the minor increase in cost of ECC ram, and the larger cost of using RAID 1 or 5 or 6; I got bitten by this very issue in my personal hardware.

Just one of many times that I've been taught. Any data that is actually /valued/ should have a backup. Redundancy in operation is more a hedge against hardware failure, and unplanned downtime.

Integrity costs; pay for it. This is true everywhere.

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Re:Platter Crash on an IBM Death Star HD (2003) by aidenn0 on Sunday November 08, 2015 @10:08PM (#10531172)
It's not really a minor increase in cost for ECC ram; the CPU and motherboards that support ECC ram are considerably more expensive. To top it off, many times motherboards cannot support the full capacity of ram with ECC installed; my workstation can accept up to 8GB DIMMs with non-ECC and 4GB DIMMS with ECC.
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