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How Important is ECC Memory? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello fellow selfhoster, I was wondering how important it is to have ECC Memory. I want a server that is really reliable and ECC memory pops up as one of the must haves for reliability. But it seems to me in my research that it is quite expensive to get a setup with ECC memory. How important is ECC memory for a server (I rely on).

So far I have been rocking a Raspberry pi 4 which has ECC memory

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Yea think a ZFS redundancy + Backup will do for my application then. From what I am reading here it is less common than I imagined

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's extremely common in Enterprise where costs for a 100k+ server isn't the most expensive part of running, maintaining, servicing said server. If your home lab isn't practicing 3-2-1 backups (at least three copies of your data, two local (on-site) but on different media/devices, and at least one copy off-site) yet, I'd spend money on that before ECC.