Thane,
Can not say that ECC removes the danger of bad RAM. ECC does allow some
correction (protection) for bad RAM and just truck on.
Bad RAM is BAD RAM. ECC is better than what most of us us normally, but
I do not believe it is the complete band-aid.
And, most of us are not willing to spend the $$$ or boot-time on ECC
RAM. JMHO.
Mission Critical (?) usually calls for ECC RAM. Worst case is ECC
Registered! I own ECC-Registered! Fine. (thanks Chris!)
If the m/b is designed ONLY for.....
then all bets are off should you choose otherwise.....
What I have found/seen is that ECC RAM just means/takes longer time to
boot up. The machine/OS/whatever needs to check/test ALL available RAM
spaces. (My opinion).....
But, ECC RAM does allow some operational RAM recovery (either bit-wise
or byte-wise), I think.... The "Server Guys" will know more.
Me? I just put up with the boot-up time of counting/checking all 2GB of
RAM in BIOS, before, W2KServer boots......
4me, ATM, happy camper; happy server!
Best,
Duncan
Thane Sherrington wrote:
I know some time ago someone (Lopaka, maybe) was saying that using
anything but ECC RAM was crazy. I have a machine which is reasonably
mission critical, and am I right in thinking that if the motherboard
supports ECC, then using ECC RAM will remove the danger of bad RAM
causing problems on the computer?
T
