ECC is not only enabled on Ryzen, but it works! ...Sort of.

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

How many Intel Z170 and Z270 boards support ECC though?

None. 

2 minutes ago, Valentyn said:

That's what I'm getting at, buying consumer components can't guarantee enterprise/workstation features.

Hopefully users can see that this isn't guaranteed. I would hate to see an exception taken as a rule before officially being certified.

[Valentyn]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

None. 

Hopefully users can see that this isn't guaranteed. I would hate to see an exception taken as a rule before officially being certified.

 

Aye, Wendell from Level 1 Techs has been covering ECC in Linux from the start as well, and managed to get ECC working on the Asrock Taichi, and Gigabyte Aorus Gaming 5.

[Beskamir]

On 3/30/2017 at 10:03 PM, ARikozuM said:

I can't wait until users start building servers with Ryzen only to lose all data just because the ECC didn't work with X board.

Well that's the same as with Intel's CPUs... Pentiums have ECC and if you're buying ECC RAM you *hopefully* did your research and made sure that everything is compatible.

 

Also I find it weird that Ryzen is getting so much press when the FX series had ECC support too.

[Vode]

6 hours ago, ElfFriend said:

Well that's the same as with Intel's CPUs... Pentiums have ECC and if you're buying ECC RAM you *hopefully* did your research and made sure that everything is compatible.

 

Also I find it weird that Ryzen is getting so much press when the FX series had ECC support too.

Same with FX as with Pentium. It's not a great chip overall. People are getting excited because Ryzen is a beast chip. Same if 7700k or Broadwell E had ECC.

 

All in all I do think that ECC support doesn't do much for a workstation other than give you that warm and fuzzy feeling. 

[Beskamir]

15 hours ago, Vode said:

Same with FX as with Pentium. It's not a great chip overall. People are getting excited because Ryzen is a beast chip. Same if 7700k or Broadwell E had ECC.

 

All in all I do think that ECC support doesn't do much for a workstation other than give you that warm and fuzzy feeling. 

ECC is useful for ZFS.

[themctipers]

On 3/31/2017 at 0:21 PM, dalekphalm said:

Indeed, some Google Engineer wrote a paper about RAM bit-errors, and he calculated that a single bit error occurs approximately every 1.5 years (assuming Google Data Center workload) per stick.

 

He also calculated that under normal operation, we'd all be long dead and gone before a multi-bit error happens - exceptions being things like a defective or damaged RAM stick, etc).

i must be winning a unlucky lottery 

or i misdiagnosed my issue entirely

(aka my computer randomly crashes with ram related errors when it runs at 1600/1333mhz, but not at 1066, but the ram is rated at 1600mhz, and memtest86 says its good ram (5 passes) )

[dalekphalm]

10 hours ago, ElfFriend said:

ECC is useful for ZFS.

ECC is useful on any Filesystem, but with ZFS in particular (and other, similar Filesystems/Scrubbing arrays) because it guarantees (as much as possible at any rate) that data will always be reliable.

10 hours ago, themctipers said:

i must be winning a unlucky lottery 

or i misdiagnosed my issue entirely

(aka my computer randomly crashes with ram related errors when it runs at 1600/1333mhz, but not at 1066, but the ram is rated at 1600mhz, and memtest86 says its good ram (5 passes) )

I would hazard that despite what Memtest says, your RAM is probably defective.

[The Benjamins]

4 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

ECC is useful on any Filesystem, but with ZFS in particular (and other, similar Filesystems/Scrubbing arrays) because it guarantees (as much as possible at any rate) that data will always be reliable.

I would hazard that despite what Memtest says, your RAM is probably defective.

I had a set of defective stick of ram. did a ghetto test to figure it out (ran set of 2 sticks till I found which one crashes my system ever 24-48 hours. 32GB is a pain to test.