MR. T.
Explorer
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2016
- Messages
- 59
Hi all,
I have been running a freenas machine for a while, and had so many problems that a lesser man would have given up, but it's so pleasing to see things when they start to fall in line.
I have slowly fixed up all the problems, and spent ridiculous amounts of money doing so but now i come to a choice i have to do.
I really, really, REALLY want ECC ram.
My problem comes down to cost. My motherboard will hold 4 dimms to up to 64gb (4x 16gb), but those are quite expensive.
Buying 4 right now is completely impossible.
I am running on normal corsair ram (non-ECC), with 32 gb (4x8gb).
At this point i can keep running as it is till i have the money to buy at least 2 ECC sticks (to keep the amount of ram), or buy one stick and reduce the ram to 16gb.
Normally i would go with the smaller but better ram, but i have 70tb in my pools... running that of 16gb makes me nervous.
In fact just 32gb feels quite short given the 1gb ram to 1tb of storage recommended.
As timings... i expect to buy one ram stick at the end of January... the second one probably only on late march or april.
I would love to be able to get them sooner, but i am pretty sure my wallet wont allow for it.
Given this limitation... what should i do?
Should i wait? or should i reduce the amount of ram, so i can run ECC?
Best regards
I have been running a freenas machine for a while, and had so many problems that a lesser man would have given up, but it's so pleasing to see things when they start to fall in line.
I have slowly fixed up all the problems, and spent ridiculous amounts of money doing so but now i come to a choice i have to do.
I really, really, REALLY want ECC ram.
My problem comes down to cost. My motherboard will hold 4 dimms to up to 64gb (4x 16gb), but those are quite expensive.
Buying 4 right now is completely impossible.
I am running on normal corsair ram (non-ECC), with 32 gb (4x8gb).
At this point i can keep running as it is till i have the money to buy at least 2 ECC sticks (to keep the amount of ram), or buy one stick and reduce the ram to 16gb.
Normally i would go with the smaller but better ram, but i have 70tb in my pools... running that of 16gb makes me nervous.
In fact just 32gb feels quite short given the 1gb ram to 1tb of storage recommended.
As timings... i expect to buy one ram stick at the end of January... the second one probably only on late march or april.
I would love to be able to get them sooner, but i am pretty sure my wallet wont allow for it.
Given this limitation... what should i do?
Should i wait? or should i reduce the amount of ram, so i can run ECC?
Best regards