dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:49:17 +1300 > Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> > WD Caviar Black drive [...] Intel E7200 2.53GHz 3MB L2 >>> > The P45 based boards are a no-brainer >>> >>> 16G of DDR2-1066 with P45 or >>> 8G of ECC DDR2-800 with 3210 based boards >>> >>> That is the question. >>> >>> >> I guess the answer is how valuable is your data? >> > > I disagree. The answer is: go for the 16G and make backups. The 16G > system will work far more "easy" and I may be lucky but in the past > years I did not have ZFS issues with my non-ECC ram ;-) >
You are lucky. I recommend ECC RAM for any data that you care about. Remember, if there is a main memory corruption, that may impact the data that ZFS writes which will negate any on-disk redundancy. And yes, this does occur -- check the archives for the tales of woe. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
