Just found out that our P4C800-E Deluxe MBs can take ECC RAM. Wanted to use them for data backup and syncronizing massive archives of files. No games etc for these.
1. Wondering if it is worth getting ECC RAM? I initially was looking for just ECC and not ECC/Registered but couldn’t find any confirmed combatible with this mb. Can anyone confirm any ECC unbuffered that is compatible with this board?
2. Wouldn’t the performance hit for registered (buffered) ECC be too much to justify for these tasks? I would think that ECC is enough for what i want to use these for. After all, this is only for syncronizing files and data backup/restore in a small WORKGROUP environment.
Notes: Presently using Corsair non-ecc ram and these systems are absolutely ROCK-SOLID. I somehow feel that ECC would give me more data integrity for these above mentioned tasks. Wouldn’t ECC be better to use when backing up and syncronizing files over a small (100 Mbs ethernet) network? Or am i just overly paranoid? Perhaps i should just keep the ram that’s in there and not worry about it?
Any comments or help on this is appreciated.
