From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 7 6:53: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C5B37B724 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 06:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 14FGql-0003jZ-00; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:31:11 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f07E8Vc15633 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 15:08:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: ECC worth the extra cost for SOHO server? Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 14:08:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <939t8v$f6r$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <200101070506.f0756as07326@grumpy.dyndns.org> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly wrote: > I recommend ECC for everyone. The memory should be no more than 12% > more expensive. The real use of ECC isn't so much the real time > correction of errors, but for the real time *detection* of errors. Considering today's memory market, the greatest benefit from ECC is probably that you will automatically get quality memory that way. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message