Speed is hardly the issue unless you're looking for some PC4000 or faster. ECC is higher cost more than anything. Any milliseconds lost to timing would probably be made up for in the scrubbing of any potential errors which could reduce downtime.
That something I'm sure you can agree on. Uptime makes up for lost time. --- Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allen Brown wrote: > > > If the problem doesn't recur, don't worry about it. > > But if you are buying new hardware and your computer > > absolutely has to be reliable, I recommend ECC. Costs > > more, but it will correct single bit errors. That's > > generally all you need. > > Isn't ECC RAM also slower? I thought that was why most > desktop > machines don't use it. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > kbobsoft software consulting > http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
