[CentOS] Mother board recommendation

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 03.06.2014 um 22:39 schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us:

> Warren Young wrote:
>> On 6/3/2014 12:26, Lists wrote:
>>> 
>>> Registered/Unregistered, CAS timing,
>>> single/double/quad ranked, never mind voltages, and making sure your CPU
>>> supports it!
>> 
>> All of those specs are listed in the motherboard manual.  If you're
>> buying your RAM from a reseller that doesn't give you the corresponding
>> specs to match up against the mobo specs, stop buying from that vendor.
>> 
>> There are vendors that will match up your specific motherboard with the
>> RAM that works in it, and will exchange the RAM for the right stuff if
>> by some tiny chance they specified the wrong stuff.  (e.g. Crucial)
> 
> Buried in some of them, and others, well, it tells you what it will
> take... and it *assumes* that you're just building the system, and buying
> all the DIMMs as one batch, *not* that you're replacing a failed DIMM. But
> you've got to match even things like cl2whatever. If it doesn't have
> *exactly* what's on the other DIMMs, it won't work.



That’s why you replace both.
Or, if you build your own servers in significant quantities, you’ve got to do you’re own stock-keeping.
Need 24 hard drives? Buy 30!
Need 12 PSUs for 6 servers? Buy 16.

That, or buy COTS-hardware from Dell, HP, IBM, Fujitsu with a support-contract….