Memory ECC and NON-ECC

[hardwarefish]

I plan to build server with XEON processor and does it better for me to get ECC ram or non-ECC ram - i read many places and they said that these days ram are stable and no point to get ECC Ram.

Please give me your opinion

thank you

 

[electrontau]

Is the server used for a business and need to be on all the time? Is it essential for you business? Meaning it the computer gives a wrong data, due to a memory error, and causes loss of thousands of dollars, then if yes, I would get an ECC memory.

 

[Emerald]

It really depends on the application.

if it is a database server, I would use ECC.

mail,web, file server in most cases can get away with using non-ECC

 

[hardwarefish]

This is for hosting business assuming which involved in everything

does ECC and NON-ECC make any differences on the performance?