Am 03.06.2014 um 20:26 schrieb Lists lists@benjamindsmith.com:
On 05/16/2014 11:23 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
hardware doesn't support ECC.
<snip> Oh, right, *all* the servers here use ECC DIMMs. And you really, REALLY don't want to go there: a) price, b) n/s is not buffered is not registered, none of the above compatible in the same bank, and oh, yes, dual rank is *not* compatible with single rank or quad rank... I kid you not. I've had servers simply not boot by mixing two of those, and let's not forget not fitting in the slot...., and c) see a).
ECC is such a horrible pain in the rear. If you don't have things like "SLA" in your casual vocabulary, pretty much any desktop board works find for Centos6. For spare/personal/backups servers, I use whatever old hardware sits in the junk room.
Anything using ECC is such a pain to match up correctly that I tend to buy motherboard/RAM/CPU from a vendor as a package unit so it's warranted to work together. Registered/Unregistered, CAS timing, single/double/quad ranked, never mind voltages, and making sure your CPU supports it!
For all the promises of better uptimes, I've had far more trouble with mis-matched ECC than I've ever experienced in bad non-ECC RAM. Truly, this is a sorry showing for ECC.
It’s also a bit of a sorry showing for the admin putting together the system.
As for the original request: Maybe take a look at a HP Microserver or one of the entry-level ML-servers?