Most energy efficient (home) setup

Joe Greco jgreco at ns.sol.net
Mon Apr 16 02:00:48 UTC 2012


> >> 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.

You might want to go tell that to all those Mac users who have full
disk encryption...

... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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