Buffered and Registered Memory: Is it worth the expense?

[RobV]

Yes they do, though one having ECC is not a substitute for
the other.

Thanks.
I understand that it's no substitute for ECC RAM., but it's better than
nothing. ;-)

 

[John Doe]

If the backups are of corrupted files, you are f'cked and if it
goes months before it is detected, what are you going to tell the
boss?

Who cares?

Forget about all the busines we did in that interval? Going
backwards and findng which backup predates the corruption is
essentially impossible

I haven't seen corrupted files in a very long time, but one would
think that finding a backup that predates corruption would be as
easy as finding a backup that has dated information you sometimes
need to look for.

If a bit is flipped between the reading of a block of data and
writing it back, the database integrity mechanism won't detect it
or give you a neat way of recovering.

The backup/copy programs I'm familiar with have a simple checkbox
for verification of written data.

If that bit is in meta-data it can f'ck

Get a grip.

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