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)
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