HP Server RAM

TangoSixteen

TangoSixteen

TangoSixteen

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Im am in the process of building up quite a nice little test farm at my house.

I will have 4 physical servers, racking, a SAN, gigabit and iscsi stuff etc etc..

Now, all the servers will be HP, and when buying HP RAM you seem to get any stuff from Hynix to Samsung.

If I wanted to get the same RAM for ALL the boxes, would Kingston DDR3 10600 ECC ValueRAM be ok?

The servers are LGA1166 Xeons with 4 DDR3 Slots. I was thinking of getting two 4GB DDR sticks for each server, would that be ok?

I mean, no one really uses triple channel setups for servers do they?
 
Kingston are the only brand (to my knowledge) that test the modules after assembly.

They cost a bit more as a result but they are definitely among the most reliable brands.
 
Hi,

It seems really difficult to get a 4GB UDIMM (normal unregistered ECC)

I can however see plenty of 4GB RDIMM (registered ECC)


Whats the reason for this? I thought non registered was faster?
 
EEC all the way in servers :) less pesky memory errors and DDR3 EEC isnt going to be exactly slow!

And may I add you have a better test environment then many live environments!
 
To be honest I've installed 10s of 1000s of GB of HP ram a year into kit at the datacentre and it was Nanya, Hynix, Infineon or Samsung branded. It just depends what was available to the supplier at the time. We've got some kit running 1 type and some running all 4 - they all run the same and we've never had issues from it.

As for the triple vs dual channel - I've never used the ML110, but as it's only got 4 slots I'm guessing it's dual channel anyway. All our triple channel kit is obviously triple channel - 6 or 12 slots.

As for 4GB ECC and non ECC.... it's all about demand.
Not many people use 4GB in a machine, let alone 4GB sticks so they are few and far between. Enterprise users whack shed load of RAM in servers so 4GB and 8GB sticks means either less sticks to start with and/or more RAM in the slots available.

Plus when you are running mission critical stuff you'd much rather have ECC and the RAM running a little slow than it running faster and falling over.
 
Sorry I should have been a bit clearer!

I want to use Unregistered ECC ram, but cant find any around, only Registered ECC 4GB modules.

The stuff I am after is this:-

KVR1333D3E9S/4G

but it seems to be out of stock everywhere.

Im am wondering if most people use registered ECC or unregistered ECC?
 
If it's just for your home server then I'd use whatever is cheaper / more readily available.

ECC and registered RAM is not really needed for what you will be using the server for so if you can get RAM without it, then use it.
 
TangoSixteen said:
Im am in the process of building up quite a nice little test farm at my house.

I will have 4 physical servers, racking, a SAN, gigabit and iscsi stuff etc etc..

Now, all the servers will be HP, and when buying HP RAM you seem to get any stuff from Hynix to Samsung.

If I wanted to get the same RAM for ALL the boxes, would Kingston DDR3 10600 ECC ValueRAM be ok?

The servers are LGA1166 Xeons with 4 DDR3 Slots. I was thinking of getting two 4GB DDR sticks for each server, would that be ok?

I mean, no one really uses triple channel setups for servers do they?
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Nice setup chap!

Not being weird but any pics? :D I love seeing peoples home rigs!

are you building a virtualisation lab or something mate?

I was putting together a lab myself but made the mistake of buying a couple of old DL380 G4's to use in a Xenserver pool, all was well until I mesaured how much power they were using!! :eek:

not one of my best ideas!
 
TangoSixteen said:
Im am in the process of building up quite a nice little test farm at my house.

I will have 4 physical servers, racking, a SAN, gigabit and iscsi stuff etc etc..
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Nice set up but what are you planning on actually doing with all this kit? Sounds pretty full on for a home test network. 2 physicals running ESXi with NFS would allow you to do pretty much everything you'd need in a test environment I would have thought?

ThorpedoUK said:
Nice setup chap!

Not being weird but any pics? :D I love seeing peoples home rigs!

are you building a virtualisation lab or something mate?

I was putting together a lab myself but made the mistake of buying a couple of old DL380 G4's to use in a Xenserver pool, all was well until I mesaured how much power they were using!! :eek:

not one of my best ideas!
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Be glad you didn't buy a couple DL580s :p
 
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Ha ha, I take it you did???

On "idle" as in not doing a whole lot, mine were using around 860w, in comparison to my desktop in my sig (quad core 8gb ram 2.5tb disk space) using 160w (vmware esxi) with more vms!, was pretty funny, they are now sitting doing nothing while I decide what to do with them!

What SAN are you using also, is it a Linux // iSCSI special or a "real" SAN? :D
 
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