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Almost all small form factor NAS I am aware of which are affordable are non-ECC.

Almost all homebrew kits ship boards which are non-ECC.

You have to explicitly configure ECC as an option, eg when ordering a NUC.

If you want to make this true, you've got to confront the problem that people go to generic, cheap SBC platforms to run their home NAS, and they are almost never ECC.

My work ZFS is ECC.



>Almost all small form factor NAS I am aware of which are affordable are non-ECC.

>Almost all homebrew kits ship boards which are non-ECC.

>You have to explicitly configure ECC as an option, eg when ordering a NUC.

Wow. Placing such products in the market without any prominent warnings (or worse, making promises of reliability) should be considered criminal negligence.


Well. Need to qualify that. They may have things like on-die ecc but they aren't exposing state. So, it's down to trust.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=358921 for instance




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