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ECC registered vs ECC unbuffered

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Mar 15, 202670218 views
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I would like to build a storage server (based on GNU/Linux or FreeBSD) which will be on all the time. To prevent data corruption (which is unlikely to happen as I never had such a problem, but better be safe than sorry) I would like to use ECC RAM. Although not as good as EDD (?) (which is way more…

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Fix for: ECC registered vs ECC unbuffered

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ECC seems to correct only single bits errors. Correct. To correct more errors would require more bits. As it is, you already use 10 bits to store 8 bits of information, 'wasting' 20% of the memory chips to allow to a single bit correction and up to …

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