Frankly, I've had so many servers with bad DDR4 DIMMs (we typically max 2P boxes at 768GB or 1TB of RAM each) that I'm scared to run DDR4 w/o ECC on anything I care about.
Even with ECC, many of them fault out with multi-bit errors, which it can detect but not correct. Still infinitely better than silent data corruption. Happy to see a form of ECC become standard with DDR5, but I suspect it was borne out of pure necessity more than anything else. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <[email protected]> On Behalf Of _ Winterlight Sent: Friday, March 19, 2021 12:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] time for upgrade I was considering an ECC ram after this catastrophic experience. And I ran dual Xenons 20 years ago. What astonishes me is the number of different models of any CPU. The W-1200 has 43 different CPU choices ranging from $400 to $4000. ________________________________ From: Hardware <[email protected]> on behalf of Greg Sevart <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 3:31 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] time for upgrade Plus considerably more PCIe lanes--but ultimately an older platform and at a pretty big clock speed disadvantage. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Al A Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 5:01 PM To: Hardware Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] time for upgrade I agree with the Xeon. If you can swing it, get the 22xx series Xeon for 4 channel memory. Al On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 8:15 PM Greg Sevart <[email protected]> wrote: > My recommendation at this point given your requirements would be a > W-1200 series Xeon and ECC Unbuffered memory. > >
