[OpenIndiana-discuss] Low low end server

[Robbie Crash]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Saso Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 2/7/14, 7:54 PM, Robbie Crash wrote:
> > For a home job, is there really any reason to use ECC RAM?
>
> It only costs a little extra and provides peace of mind.

Apparently so! The last time I was looking at buying a significant amount
of ECC vs non-ECC RAM the price difference was far more significant. Now it
looks like $200 vs $230 for an 8GB stick.

>
>
> > I'm running an i3 21020T, 32GB of normal non-ECC RAM, 4WD Green 2TBs
and 4
> > WD Black 1TBs each in RAIDZ, with a pool that I've filled and emptied
twice
> > in the last few years, and aside from when a hdd froze last winter I've
had
> > zero reported errors in my data and the only performance bottleneck is
my
> > network speed.
>
> You're misunderstanding the purpose of ECC here. If you *do* have a
> random bit flip in DRAM, ZFS won't detect it, because the corrupted file
> block will have been written to stable storage and checksummed as
> "correct". ZFS *can't* protect you here.

Indeed I was.

>
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