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Necessary? Not really. Nice to have? You bet.
Nah, just stay with your current board. A home file server shouldn't be doing much hard work anyway and it would be a waste of money to buy a new board and memory for an improbable and small memory hiccup you WILL EVENTUALLY experience. I've run my desktop 24/7 doing more work than my server ever does at times without problems, and I've also run home servers without ECC memory that ran for long periods of time without any problems.
Not true; I'm using an Intel S3210SHLC with ECC memory. It's about $250 normally, but I got it new in box from eBay for $160. It runs with regular Core 2s (I'm using a Q6600) but will also accept the single-socket Xeons.You're out of luck with Intel unless you go for server boards - almost all of which use much more expensive and hot running FB-DIMMs.
Agreed. If you have a way to get to ECC memory for, say, $200, go for it. If it's gonna be $500 to upgrade everything you need I'd pass.If you can get it then you should. I wouldn't sweat it if you can't though; not for a home server unless you really value your data.
Not true; I'm using an Intel S3210SHLC with ECC memory. It's about $250 normally, but I got it new in box from eBay for $160. It runs with regular Core 2s (I'm using a Q6600) but will also accept the single-socket Xeons.
Definitely stay with a regular desktop board and non-ECC memory.In my case I don't need long periods of uptime. As it stands now I turn off my current server when i'm done with it.
It houses an extensive movie collection along with other data. It's usually only on when I need it.