Oh wow, the prices have normalized a bit - about 18 months ago I had to pay about twice the money to get 64 gigabytes of ECC goodness.
Re:ECC matters
by Dylan16807 on Monday January 04, 2021 @09:59PM
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> The fact the pricing was so similar does make me wonder about the claims that non-ECC RAM is really ECC RAM just without the CPU/MMU being made aware of it - I think that’s possible if the RAM is already Buffered/Registered.
Who claims that? And can't you just count the chips?
I was buying DDR4 RAM last week and the cost for a 4x8GB ECC+Registered DDR4 3200 RAM kit for a Xeon W build I’ll be doing soon was about 5% more expensive than for a kit of otherwise identical RAM kit for a non-ECC Core i7 rig - which also came with tacky RGB LED heatspreader - about $230 in total for each of them.
The fact the pricing was so similar does make me wonder about the claims that non-ECC RAM is really ECC RAM just without the CPU/MMU being made aware of it - I think that’s possible if the RAM is already Buffered/Registered.