On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:14, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:02 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater > >>> Get good quality memory (possibly ECC memory if you can) and you'll >>> have a workhorse for a long period of time. >> >> Since I doubt he is running a DB that big just for fun, I would say ECC >> RAM is mandatory. In fact, every time I look up the error rates for RAM, >> I wonder why consumer class RAM isn't ECC. > > I have read the latest Intel chipsets (Core i7 - Bloomfield) do not allow > ECC RAM. > > Quite rare :-?
Yes, I think on the Intel side you have to go with a Xeon to get ECC. At least some Phenoms and such support ECC though. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
