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excellent article in FreeNAS Forums:

http://forums.freenas.org/index.php?thr ... zfs.15449/

Excellent and scary :-/
Now a list of affordable mainboards which support ECC would be great...

well the new amd kabini were supposed to support ecc and aes-ni.

but amd has announced them so far back and now is only releasing them in the am1 socket that i have no idea what the current state is.

here is an image where the ecc is mentioned.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/displa ... tions.html

crowi wrote:Excellent and scary :-/
Now a list of affordable mainboards which support ECC would be great...

The HP Proliant G7 Microservers use ECC RAM and have a £100 cashback deal here in UK (and the rest of Europe too?)

http://www.ebuyer.com/430446-hp-prolian ... 704941-421

other link to N54L in euros: http://www.pccomponentes.com/hp_prolian ... 250gb.html

I have an hp proliant ml115 with 8GB ECC ram so i think i will stick with less ram then loosing data.

Here in the US I see a few good deals on ebay although they might be overkill and use too much electricity.

2900 PowerEdge
http://m.ebay.com/itm/181353880603?nav=WATCHING_ACTIVE

Xeon Dual @ 2.8Ghz
http://m.ebay.com/itm/121294860871?nav=WATCHING_ACTIVE

Can I just pull out my old ram that is not ECC and replace it with ram that is and be good to go so long as my other hardware is compatible?

Mathew wrote:Can I just pull out my old ram that is not ECC and replace it with ram that is and be good to go so long as my other hardware is compatible?

Yes, assuming your motherboard supports ECC memory. Most do not.

The whole ECC safety thing was bugging me so I bit the bullet and bought a SuperMicro with ECC Support http://www.ebay.com/itm/Barebone-Superm ... 3785wt_810

My 11 year old son has his eyes on my old NAS Server for minecraft. Maybe I will setup a Minecraft server for him and his friends.

nice find.
might draw a bit more power than current systems but you cant argue with the price

Hello,

I currently have a ZFS (single-parity) RAIDZ (raidz1) running with non-ECC memory. Is it okay if I simply remove my existing memory and replace with unbuffered ECC memory (my board does not support buffered/registered ECC DIMMs)?

Thx

busthead wrote:Hello,

I currently have a ZFS (single-parity) RAIDZ (raidz1) running with non-ECC memory. Is it okay if I simply remove my existing memory and replace with unbuffered ECC memory (my board does not support buffered/registered ECC DIMMs)?

Thx

Which Mainboard are you using ? If there is support from the Mainboard for ECC-Ram a simple RAM-Xchange works, but else you must change Mainboard...

apollo567 wrote:

busthead wrote:Hello,

I currently have a ZFS (single-parity) RAIDZ (raidz1) running with non-ECC memory. Is it okay if I simply remove my existing memory and replace with unbuffered ECC memory (my board does not support buffered/registered ECC DIMMs)?

Thx

Which Mainboard are you using ? If there is support from the Mainboard for ECC-Ram a simple RAM-Xchange works, but else you must change Mainboard...

My mainboard is a abit AN52 nforce 520. Specs state that unbuffered EEC RAM is supported.