hardware for home use large storage

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:56:46PM +1030 I heard the voice of
>
> Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus:
> > I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte
> > GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled
> > - 2x2Gb)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if that is a
> > problem.
>
> How's that?  Is the BIOS just stupid, or is the board physically
> missing traces?

I don't know.. Some consumer Gigabyte motherboards seem to support it 
(eg GA-MA770T-UD3P).

Probably the result of idiotic penny pinching though :-/

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
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