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by chao- 3674 days ago
Ah, the old Law of ECC. Say it once and everyone assumes you not only do you not need it, but you don't know how much you don't need it!

I have one machine with ECC, because it runs a backup server for all of my devices (Bacula, for anyone curious). I wouldn't mind it on all my desktop, though, and will probably have it in the next build. I remember asking around about the miniITX motherboard for the backup machine, just to double-check that worked with ECC before buying, and I couldn't get a simple yes/no answer out of anyone. Just a lot of words about how much I definitely didn't need ECC.