Subj : Re: Server RAM
To   : Mark Hofmann
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sun Apr 03 2022 15:31:00

-=> Mark Hofmann wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 MH> Some workstation motherboards will accept ECC or non-ECC memory.
 MH> Typically the ECC is for servers and non-ECC for regular workstations.


Yeah, I tried non-ECC RAM a couple of times, not sure why it wouldn't work.

 MH> I was fortunate enough to repurpose a ton of ECC memory from some
 MH> decommissioned servers that were hosting both VDI and ESXi.  Some from
 MH> blades and others from rack based.  That is how I was able to get 300GB
 MH> in each of my Supermicro servers.  I'm using about 50% of that, too.

My work servers have 192 GB of RAM. Lucky you!


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