panz
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One test I'm thinking about running...
So here's my plan. I have a system, my old FreeNAS box. It has a Westmere socket 1366 Xeon and can use ECC or non-ECC RAM. I'm thinking I might pull out a few spare working drives and make a pool, fill that sucker up with fake data and do some tests to see what is going on. Since all of the hardware will stay the same except the RAM it might be worthwhile to see what the result is. I'm fortunate to have this board and CPU as I can and have used both ECC and non-ECC RAM and I have confirmed that the ECC does work when I use ECC RAM. Hmm.... how devoted am I to this?
I've built the system in my signature + another one with MSI C847MS-E33 and 2 old 1TB HDs (Samsung and Seagate, ZFS mirrored). Both are non -ECC systems.
Before and after each backup of my Windows server, I commit the following checks:
- zpool scrub
- HCI memtest
- Memtest86+
- Spinrite
RAM is an Electrostatic discharge sensitive piece of hardware (not telling about motherboard and other electronic components), so a good SOP is needed: anti-static mat, wrist straps, ESD certified tools, correct handling, ambient humidity, ESD certified boxes, etc.