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
According to source the ecc has to ‘kick-in’ about 3700 times per year and dimm module. That’s 10 times per day and dimm.
Depending on how important your server is to you you’ll either need it (in case of important data you absolutely don’t want to lose) or forget about it (just a hobby project, nothing serious).