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Low power cpu/motherboard that supports ECC? (re: fileserver)

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sofakng

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Right now I have a multi-purpose virtual machine/server that hosts my file server but I'm thinking about offloading that to a dedicated machine and running OpenFiler. (iSCSI, NFS, etc)

Are there any low power cpu/motherboards that support ECC RAM?

Ideally I'd like a small dual-core Intel Atom (which I think would be plenty powerful) but it looks like they don't support ECC.

Anybody know of anything else that will work?

I'm also open to a commercial solution but it would be a big change since I'm currently using a Dell PERC 6i filled with eight drives...
 
I'd rather not take any chances with a server. I know lots of people argue both ways for ECC RAM but I'd rather just be safer than sorry.
 
Blain said:
"DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street"
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You don't have to educate me on what ECC is and why it is good if you're running 100's of boxes for a single distributed app. I just don't think it's necessary for a home server.

sofakng said:
I'd rather not take any chances with a server. I know lots of people argue both ways for ECC RAM but I'd rather just be safer than sorry.
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Not worth it in my opinion, but check out the energy-efficient Opterons. Let me warn you, the bang for buck is much less than consumer grade stuff.
 
I actually have an AMD Opteron 165 and an ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard, but the motherboard doesn't support ECC and the Opteron 165 requires a lot of power... 🙁
 
The Biostar A760G M2+ that Microcenter is giving away in their combo deals with AMD CPUs supports ECC.

The HP DDR2-800 unbuffered ECC that you would need to go with it is on sale at CostCentral.com for $30 a stick too, 918 in stock.
 
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It's getting tough to find ANY non-Server/non-Workstation motherboards with ECC support nowadays. At least in the Intel world. I don't know about AMD CPU/motherboards.'

I've always used lowest-end Dell servers (all with ECC) for my own servers. These can be pretty quiet and pretty low-power, but they are hardly Atoms.
 
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