Oddly enough ECC used to be quite common for consumer hardware…I had an old Mac desktop in the late 90s/early 00s with ECC memory. But at some point it was decided that consumers don’t want to pay the extra $ for error-free RAM and mobos largely dropped support.
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Stiggyman@ani.social 4 hours agoIssue is that the production is for server gear not consumer. So it’s U2 and other connectors rather than SATA.
Same goes for RAM it’s ECC and won’t work in normal consumer PCs (AMD has like unofficial support)
errer@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
So that’s why consumer drives and ram are not affected by the price rise! /s
cenzorrll@piefed.ca 1 minute ago
They’re saying that even when it bursts and there’s all these components laying around, they’ll still be useless for consumers.
turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 3 hours ago
I guess I’ll have to buy one of those racks when the bubble pops. Just add an LED strip on the outside and a gaming GPU on the inside. Surely they support PCIe?