Does this (very budget) build good for ECC NAS

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Hello, I am building a home nas (only me as user + very light use)

But Would like to have ECC for peace of mind… budget isn’t too big though so I can’t get things like supermicro board or xeon…

I heard ryzen CPU and B550 boards have ECC UDIMM… I am wondering if below build is ok for that purpose

Ryzen 5600

MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus V1 Gaming Motherboard

RAM will be 1 stick of OWC ECC UDIMM 16GB

Versus . com profile for both CPU and board states both have ECC capability:

Just confirming if anyone outt there has a build similar to this, and can confirm ECC works

I heard somewhere it does “silence ECC” instead of having log feature, but I guess it is still OK as long as I run a membtest once or twice a year…

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You might want to do more research on the MSI board to find out how good its support of ECC is. From what I’ve read on internet posts, MSI is known for not supporting ECC memory, while AsRock and ASUS are.

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Thank you for response

I got worried after reading this so I replaced board with “ASUS Prime B550-PLUS AC-HES AMD AM4”

Apparently same number of sata as msi board and versus . com states ecc supported

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How tight is your budget, and where are you located?
In Europe you may get a Gigabyte MJ11-EC1 for 60 €. Guaranteed ECC with cheap RDIMM, 8 SATA (with SFF-8654-4i breakout cable). 1 GbE only, and you need to print your own backplate, but the price is hard to beat.

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Thank you for response

I am in South Korea and mostly looking for Amazon global (only listings that ship to South Korea) right now

Before, I tried looking at refurb cheat p server boards on aliexpress, but people said those are not trustworthy and may doa/fail in 6 months and no refund

Very unfortunate couldnt find Gigabyte MJ11-EC1 AMD EPYC 3151 on amazon…

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That’s the same board I have, I think. ECC seems to work fine.

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Most unfortunate we cannot find the uncrippled MJ11-EC0 anywhere. The MJ11-EC1 is refurbished from mining-like “GPU server” rigs.

There’s always a risk with second-hand / refurbished boards, but this is where we get the best deals, so keep looking with an open mind: The best deal may be a motherboard you’ve never heard of.

Otherwise a Ryzen motherboard is a reasonable option, but with consumer boards you can never be sure whether ECC is working or whether the board mostly accepts ECC RAM but works as non-ECC. And Ryzen server boards such these from AsRock Rack or Gigabyte MC12/MC13 are just as expensive as the Xeon E equivalents.

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My main nas is a Dell sc440 dual core and 4gb ram. Served me flawlessly for over a decade.

I picked up a Dell t3610 recently for 20usd. Flawlessly running as a pve with a nas server on it.

You don’t need much to run as a nas server.

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I still cannot believe how much the price of HDDs has yo-you’d right back to the same levels when Southeast Asia flooded. When storage is abnormally cheap, buy lots of spares, these boom-bust cycles are common in industries with constrained production and high costs to entry.