From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 26 5:42:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.lth2.k12.il.us (mail.lth2.k12.il.us [206.166.46.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9DC37B86F for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 05:42:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us) Received: from hub (5.240.175.209.lth2.k12.il.us [209.175.240.5]) by mail.lth2.k12.il.us (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA30822; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 08:26:35 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.32.20000626074628.006cb1d8@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us> X-Sender: dallen@roe35.lth2.k12.il.us X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 07:46:28 -0500 To: Matt Heckaman From: "Douglas G. Allen" Subject: Re: Compatibility Question Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt, >Interesting, I've always personally thought ECC to be somewhat overrated >and certaintly overpriced. Granted I do not have that much expierence in >comparison to some, but I have a machine here running 512M of non-ECC for >over a year now without any ram-related problems. (HD did die once though) I'm moving all servers to ECC memory. I think if you were running True Parity (where the second number is divisible by 9), you'd be ok though - based upon my machine at home. >I don't know, 512M (2x256) of ECC RAM will cost me 2,200$ - that's an >awful nasty hit to be taking for what the server will do, which is a >generally nasty business called shell services. In other words, there is >no single client paying thousands of dollars for web hosting of their >company's core page that will cost them (and me) a fortune for any >downtime :) Given this situation, I've a hard time justifying that cost, >which is only a few hundred dollars less then the *entire* machine is >going to cost me, especially for it's role :) I suggest you go look at http://www.crucial.com for memory. It's Crucial's website, which means it's Micron memory. I think they had 256M ECC modules for the PowerEdge listed for about $500 a piece. I would say that the price you were quoted is rather high. Hope this helps with your questions. Doug Allen Tech Coordinator Regional Offices of Education #35 and #43 (LaSalle, Marshall, Putnam, and Woodford Counties Illinois) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message