On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Saso Kiselkov <[email protected]> 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. > > > -- > Saso > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss -- Seconds to the drop, but it seems like hours. http://www.openmedia.ca https://robbiecrash.me _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
