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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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koeng ◴[04 Jul 25 15:55 UTC] No.44465605[source]▶
Are there any mini NAS with ECC ram nowadays? I recall that being my personal limiting factor
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qwertox ◴[04 Jul 25 16:33 UTC] No.44465903[source]▶
Minisforum N5 Pro Nas has up to 96 GB of ECC RAM

https://www.minisforum.com/pages/n5_pro

https://store.minisforum.com/en-de/products/minisforum-n5-n5...

    no RAM 1.399€
  16GB RAM 1.459€
  48GB RAM 1.749€
  96GB RAM 2.119€
96GB DDR5 SO-DIMM costs around 200€ to 280€ in Germany.

https://geizhals.de/?cat=ramddr3&xf=15903_DDR5~15903_SO-DIMM...

I wonder if that 128GB kit would work, as the CPU supports up to 256GB

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen-pro/...

I can't force the page to show USD prices.

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wyager ◴[04 Jul 25 17:23 UTC] No.44466328[source]▶
Is this "full" ECC, or just the baseline improved ECC that all DDR5 has?

Either way, on my most recent NAS build, I didn't bother with a server-grade motherboard, figuring that the standard consumer DDR5 ECC was probably good enough.

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1. layer8 ◴[04 Jul 25 17:48 UTC] No.44466503[source]▶
The DDR5 on-die ECC doesn’t report memory errors back to the CPU, which is why you would normally want ECC RAM in the first place. Unlike traditional side-band ECC, it also doesn’t protect the memory transfers between CPU and RAM. DDR5 requires the on-die ECC in order to still remain reliable in face of its chip density and speed.