I am sorry if I missed it but does your build have to be based on Ryzen. Have you already bought the Ryzen CPU?@Inxsible
Well, I dont think quality server boards in the Micro-ATX / ITX format exists for Ryzen.
The most "high end" I can find is a Biostar x370GT3 which supports ECC un-buffered ram, but the compatibility list shows it only supports a total of 3 ECC sticks by Hynix and Apacer which are not available in my country.
It seems that it's near impossible to get a ITX/micro ATX build with ryzen that has support for ECC.
Even the most high end ATX boards has like 2-3 ECC sticks in their QVL list.
FWIW, I never checked the QVL lists when I built my system. I just bought Crucial 8GB ECC Unbuffered sticks and plugged them in. They worked and still do.How meaningful are the QVL lists? Is it normal that ECC sticks not listed in the list will still work?
FreeNas will work without ECC. But if sh!t hits the fan, you will be glad if you have ECC support.But if I decided to go without ECC ram. Will this be a huge issue for my requirements?
FreeNas will work without ECC. But if sh!t hits the fan, you will be glad if you have ECC support.
You are new to the forums, I believe. But you will see these kinds of posts a lot. Every one thinks FreeNAS users are extremists about using ECC RAM. I don't think it's that, it's more about having ECC reduces that 1 angle of investigation when something bad happens.Oh boy! It's the first time I can see anyone mentioning these circumstances. And such circumstances seem to me much more probable than other I,ve known till now (like some unclear to me: memory bit error. On the other hand I,ve once encountered a case of a RAM stick stopping working during its lifetime). As a wrap-up: @Inxsible - thanks a lot for this post.
Consumer grade motherboards and ECC most often don't go together.Pardon my French, I've recently come into an opinion that AMD consumer grade motherboards ECC support is questionable (or only gaming ones?) (https://www.nas4free.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=12186)
Yeah, that's the been the status quo for years. Nobody really wants to commit to a proper server/workstation board using AMD consumer-level CPUs.Pardon my French, I've recently come into an opinion that AMD consumer grade motherboards ECC support is questionable (or only gaming ones?) (https://www.nas4free.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=12186)