explain memory speed 1300Mhz v 3200Mhz

[RobTi]

32 Gb DDR3 1333Mhz or 32 Gb DDR3 3200Mhz for old pc running truenas running an AMD A10-6700 AGU with 2x8Gb 3200Mhz looking to upgrade to 2x16GB of ram
i am out of the loop for so long i dont have a clue about the speed, any help ?
Thanks

 

[JollyJamma]

32 Gb DDR3 1333Mhz or 32 Gb DDR3 3200Mhz for old pc running truenas running an AMD A10-6700 AGU with 2x8Gb 3200Mhz looking to upgrade to 2x16GB of ram
i am out of the loop for so long i dont have a clue about the speed, any help ?
Thanks

So if it's just to run a NAS, I can't see spending money on new faster RAM helping that much.

If it was ECC RAM, yes. That makes a difference to data storage.

 

[RobTi]

So if it's just to run a NAS, I can't see spending money on new faster RAM helping that much.

If it was ECC RAM, yes. That makes a difference to data storage.

thanks i was pondering upgrading to a ryzen/ddr4 set up but as you say its only for plex\file storage

 

[JollyJamma]

thanks i was pondering upgrading to a ryzen/ddr4 set up but as you say its only for plex\file storage

You should strongly consider ECC RAM then.

FreeNAS without ECC RAM

Hello, I know that FreeNAS uses ZFS and ZFS requires ECC RAM, because of checksums and file validating. But I read from here https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=26303271#p26303271 that according to Matthew Ahrens, who is ZFS creator, he said: There's nothing special...

www.truenas.com

 

[RobTi]

You should strongly consider ECC RAM then.

FreeNAS without ECC RAM

Hello, I know that FreeNAS uses ZFS and ZFS requires ECC RAM, because of checksums and file validating. But I read from here https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=26303271#p26303271 that according to Matthew Ahrens, who is ZFS creator, he said: There's nothing special...

www.truenas.com

thanks looks like a post in the motherboards section to ask about boards that support ecc ram then

 

[JollyJamma]

I'd browse that forum to see what people suggest. I'm sure that there are Truenas nuts on this forum but I haven't seen any.