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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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[-] SmallAlmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

It is not exactly ecc, you should check it out, I don't remember what was different

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's not end to end, it corrects the bits in the cell, but if the data is corrupted on the wires you're screwed.

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