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