Hello fellow selfhoster, I was wondering how important it is to have ECC Memory. I want a server that is really reliable and ECC memory pops up as one of the must haves for reliability. But it seems to me in my research that it is quite expensive to get a setup with ECC memory. How important is ECC memory for a server (I rely on).

So far I have been rocking a Raspberry pi 4 which has ECC memory

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Nice to have, but not vital.

Best is to use a file system with checksum error correction to mitigate against the rare non-ecc memory issue. I use btrfs which does a good job for that.

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