[Question] To build the Most Stable PC

[vigiloconfido]

Hi,

 

After a heated debate, I have come up with a question that would need you brilliant guys' help: how to build the Most Stable PC?

 

In fact, as need for gaming is less and less as age goes, speed and overclocking are less of a concern. However, having a hobby in photography, and the family has a lot of precious memory stored as photo and video, integrity of these data become the highest priority in consideration when building a PC. Hard error and Silent Data Corruption are the nemesis to these precious data.

 

My question is: what direction should I go, in order to make a build that can keep the data safe (while keeping it a pseudo-gaming rig because I am lazy, or shall it be a dedicated server at home instead)?

 

What I can think of at the moment:

 

Xeon CPU

SAS HDD (combine with SSD for RAID 1 or what?)

A stable PSU - maybe even UPS?

 

Thanks guys.

[ZetZet]

Build that can keep data safe is:

any kind of build

+NAS in raid

[xnoobftw]

Just have regular backups and you'll be safe

[Castdeath97]

Use cloud storage if you have good internet.

[ZacDaMan72]

Run in RAID 1 while also keeping regular backups (preferably a NAS on RAID 1 too) and you'll be fine. CPU doesn't really change the reliability, and just getting a good PSU and run it on a surge protected powerboard will make it last ages. 

[vigiloconfido]

Hi guys,

 

Thanks for the input. I was trying to be nerdy - let me illustrate it more.

 

Xeon - because ECC memory

And yes, let's build with ECC memory, need special mobo.

 

Hard error and SDC - need SAS hard drive. Same, as theoretically is better with PSU + UPS just in case.

 

And in fact for SDC, quoting from Silent Data Corruption (SDC) …it’s more prevalent that you think 

 

Data corruption happens all the time. It is when a bit or a set of bits is changed unintentionally due to various reasons. Some of the reasons are listed below:

 

Hardware errors

Data transfer noise

Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)

Firmware bugs

Software bugs

Poor electrical current distribution

Many more …

 

So just wondering what I can do.