Is it safe for data integrity to use a “non ECC mini pc” that runs docker containers from the volumes of a “NAS with ECC ram”?
Or does the mini pc also require ECC ram for the data integrity?
Sorry if it is a noob question.
Is it safe for data integrity to use a “non ECC mini pc” that runs docker containers from the volumes of a “NAS with ECC ram”?
Or does the mini pc also require ECC ram for the data integrity?
Sorry if it is a noob question.
While ECC memory is nice to have, potential data integrity issues can be mitigated against by using a file system with sufficient redundancy and checksum error correction like zfs or btrfs.
Just run a regular scrub for errors to be auto-corrected from the extra copies.
That would be the plan, the NAS with ECC would run zfs with weekly scrubs (4 to 6 drives)
Edit: now running ECC on devices with critical data or databases