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Is ECC memory is supported or not. Jafa, can you give a definitive answer?

April 26, 2017answer definitive ECC memory supported

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Is ECC memory is supported or not. Jafa, can you give a definitive answer?

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ECC memory will work fine but the extra ECC bits are not used (ECC memory does not actually do ECC… it is just slightly wider so if the motherboard supports ECC then they can be used for that purpose). The driver maintains a checksum of every sector so if there are any data errors it will be detected, logged, and re-loaded from the hard drive. In other words, if it wasn’t clear, ECC is just ignored, but tolerated.