Message from @futuremoe
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I think the enthusiast have 40 as well
I doubt ECC makes a difference for gaming
I used a Xeon desktop from July 2012 to November 2018
Yes ecc makes a different for gaming, it makes gaming slower
I have a Xeon E3 in my homeserver
it's p nice
Ecc is not about perf, it's about stability
I would not run a server or video/audio rendering without it
at least the important stuff
It depends what you do on the server
Most use cases don't actually require or even benefit from ecc
Data storage, serving movies via Plex
What kind of raid level?
I use FreeNAS w/raidz2
6 3tb wd reds
Then ECC brings a benefit
But only because of the raidz2
Everything else that you said has 0 benefits from ECC
yeah I have to. so many lifehacker tier guides said "just pick up old pc parts and smash them together" and FreeNAS forums were very clear about how important ECC is
im still not sure about what to run on my NAS
if your memory is fucky with z raid it's bye bye
ZFS, unRAID (XFS), mergerfs + snapraid
In my limited experience FreeNAS and zfs z2 has been good to me
4 disks, but i want to expand
ZFS can't expand with single disks
one hard drive already broke, it sent a mail, resilvering was a breeze
How many disks do you want to have?
i have 8 bays
How large are the single disks going to be?
8TB
Mh that's too large for raid6
i don't want to run hardware raid
Does your NAS have reliable external backups?
Or are you using raid as a backup? (don't)
there's nothing on there
there's 4 unpartitioned disks in it
and a 500GB 970 evo plus
How much reliability do you need?