Ecc help
20 minutes ago, Indian pc builder said:i'm more and more paranoid about bitrot
Then you shouldn’t use unraid. Use truenas, or anything that uses ZFS. ZFS is the best option to protect data for the long term.
8 minutes ago, Indian pc builder said:only the embedded ones, but that's not the point, my main question at this point is now, whether i should go for ecc or just plain ddr5? using brand new matched hard drives and xfs in unraid
Why not get a used server system? My old i3 6100 used ECC, I bought a cheap HPE server with the i3, server chipset mobo, and RAM, all in brand new was like 250 bucks back in 2016 just for reference. Maybe pick up a cheap used xeon and mobo from eBay?
I would run ZFS before I worry about ECC. ZFS will scrub and compare data across all drives to make sure things don’t “rot”. ECC is helpful for this, but not strictly required. ECC is just one more way to validate nothing gets flipped in RAM. ZFS scrubs are the real answer to this problem tho, and if you are exceedingly paranoid, run Z3 instead of Z2, it gives you 50% more drives to compare data against when doing a scrub.
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