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Old 21st June 2010
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The question then is: Do you need ECC memory? Cheap and ECC memory is sort of a conflict in terms
Not wanting to spend big amount of money on a system, doesn’t make it less important to me to have a system with ECC memory – this is actually the reason why I started this thread.

True, cheap and ecc memory are nowadays a contradiction. It hasn’t always been this way...

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I have two Supermicro X7SLA-H Atom 330 boards, one running as a fileserver at home, and the other running this website (Among other things).
I have the latter running with 2x2.5" disks in RAID-1 and it uses 30W average. The fileserver at home uses about 60-65W avg. since it has 4 large powerhungry 3.5" disks.
Thanks for spending the resources to run this site!
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