Ryzen home server with ECC memory

[zephyz]

Hi everyone, I'm looking to build a home server based on ryzen since it supports ECC memory.

I will be using it for backups using ZFS, I also plan to use is as a NAS as well and I'm currently working on making my home smarted and using homebridge to connect to my devices.

 

My problem is with ECC, I've had very little luck findingg ECC ram and its compatibility with AM3 motherboards. And that's why I'm turning to the community. The information I've found about Ryzen and ECC memory support is a bit all over the place. PCPartPicker doesn't list any AM4 motherboard compatible with ECC memory, some random forum posts claim some compatibility with some motherboards but not others. And worst of all, it seems some motherboards list ECC as a supported feature, but support ECC ram sticks, but not Error correction itself.

 

Who should I believe? What motherboard should I pick?

This is a pretty small system so I was going for:

- Ryzen 3 3200G

- 16Gb ram

- 4*8Tb drives

 

I haven't picked a case or a cooler but I don't worry too much about those, ram and CPU are my main concerns

 

Budget (including currency): 1000GBP

Country: UK

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home server for data management, backups, NAS, homebrige

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, zephyz said:

Ryzen 3 3200G

thats gonna be a problem here, they don't support ecc. Either go ryzen 3 3100, or go with a pentium here.

 

For home backups you probably don't need ecc. 

 

You gonna need unbuffered ecc dimms here.

 

If you want full ecc support, get a fully supported platform, then you don't have to deal with these issues. 

[zephyz]

 

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

thats gonna be a problem here, they don't support ecc. Either go ryzen 3 3100, or go with a pentium here.

 

If you want full ecc support, get a fully supported platform, then you don't have to deal with these issues. 

 

 

As far as I know Xeons are the only platform beside Ryzen that support ECC and they are way out of my budget (both power and monetary), I assumed all Ryzens supported ECC, this wiki seem to indicate that they all support ECC https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/zen_2 though does not expand to which extent they do

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, zephyz said:

 

 

As far as I know Xeons are the only platform beside Ryzen that support ECC and they are way out of my budget (both power and monetary), I assumed all Ryzens supported ECC, this wiki seem to indicate that they all support ECC https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/microarchitectures/zen_2 though does not expand to which extent they do

Celerons, pentiums, and the i3 9100 support ecc on supported boards aswell.

 

They also have low power xeons, basically rebranded xeons. Used parts are also a good idea here.

 

But id probably drop ecc support for this system personally, likely won't matter here.

 

But look around at what boards seem to support it. I have had good luck with asrock boards and ecc, so id give those a shot.