David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 3, 2021 1:03 am wrote:
> Jukka Larja (roskakori2006.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 2, 2021 11:10 pm wrote:
> >
> > > Go out and search for ECC DIMMs - it's really hard to find. Yes - probably entirely thanks
> > > to AMD - it may have been gotten slightly better lately, but that's exactly my point.
> >
> > It wasn't hard at all. I bought mine (about a month ago) from a small family business. Other small retailer
> > also had ECC DIMMs available, but the first one was selling the sort of Ethernet cables I needed so I chose
> > them instead. Only hard part was that I accidentally ordered buffered DIMMs instead of unbuffered first.
>
> Back before Intel made ECC support Xeon only, unbuffered ECC DIMMs were much more readily available.

I simply forgot to check, as I don't often buy ECC. Buffered probably cost 2 € less or something like that.

Hardly any parts I buy for my computers are available off-the-shelf. I almost always want more memory and larger disks than most of the other people, so I end up ordering online anyway. In that context, ordering ECC wasn't any different than ordering non-ECC, except for extra step of choosing between buffered and unbuffered (I think I mentioned in other post that the price was higher than non-ECC, but not particularly bad).

Mind you, these are Finnish retailers. I'd imagine that if I was willing to order from abroad it would be even easier.

-JLarja