Am 03.06.2014 um 20:26 schrieb Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com>: > On 05/16/2014 11:23 AM, m.roth at 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?