HP Server RAM

TangoSixteen · 3 Sep 2010 at 12:29

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?

TangoSixteen · 3 Sep 2010 at 12:40

#Chri5# said:
Which model ProLiants?

ML110 G6

The idea is that if I buy a bunch of the DDR3 ECC Kingston ValueRAM it will still be excellent quality, but I can keep all the sticks matching across the whole lot...

The ram must be decent stuff surely?

TangoSixteen · 6 Sep 2010 at 09:14

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?

TangoSixteen · 7 Sep 2010 at 13:48

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?