Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)

Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by m-j-fox on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:53PM (#14208337)

Should be about 1/8th more since it's just a 72-bit bus for carrying 64-bits data and 8-bits check. Or rather, your dimm will have 9 chips instead of 8.

How they get you is Intel will sell you a xeon which is the exact same die as an i5 in a different package for more money.

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Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by problems on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:02AM (#14209084)

Depends what you need - you can pick up older gen Xeon chips for cheap and the performance often isn't that much worse than modern consumer grade stuff. If you're looking to build a consumer-level NAS or home server, Avoton is pretty cheap and takes ECC RAM.

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Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by voltagex_ on Thursday April 27, 2017 @12:50AM (#14209251)

Unfortunately, Avoton might just suddenly stop working on you.

https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c2000-series-bug-qui...

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Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by reactor4 on Thursday April 27, 2017 @11:11AM (#14212066)

Some i3s support ECC: 7th gen: http://ark.intel.com/products/97125/Intel-Core-i3-7101TE-Pro... 6th gen: http://ark.intel.com/products/90731/Intel-Core-i3-6300-Proce...

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Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by jandrese on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:55AM (#14211945)

It should be 1/8th more, plus a bit for the scrubber. But in practice ECC memory is "enterprise priced" so it's more like double.

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Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by m-j-fox on Friday April 28, 2017 @11:09AM (#14219978)

Should we do a Kickstarter to manufacture our own DIMMs? Its an easy design and I hate donating to some corporate gross margins. Maybe enough people feel the same.

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