Hello fellow selfhoster, I was wondering how important it is to have ECC Memory. I want a server that is really reliable and ECC memory pops up as one of the must haves for reliability. But it seems to me in my research that it is quite expensive to get a setup with ECC memory. How important is ECC memory for a server (I rely on).
So far I have been rocking a Raspberry pi 4 which has ECC memory
Think of it this way: if a cosmic ray happen to land on a silicon cell in your RAM and flip a bit from 1 to 0, how screwed will you be? If the answer is “meh, I’ll just restart the computer/restore corrupted data from backup” then you probably don’t need it.