[152148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Most energy efficient (home) setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Morris)
Sun Apr 15 11:45:45 2012
In-Reply-To: <201204150646.q3F6kTsk061467@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:45:06 -0400
From: Charles Morris <cmorris@cs.odu.edu>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> And silent memory corruption can make its way to the filesystem, or
>> applications' internal saved data structures (such as the contents
>> of a VM's registry database).
> Since we don't hear about Mac mini server users screaming about how
> their servers are constantly crashing, the severity and frequency of
> memory corruption events may not be anywhere near what you suggest.
>
ECC is an absolute MUST. Case closed-
unless you like corrupt encryption keys that blow away an entire volume.
