Quick question about ECC ram.
I know ECC ram can be configured in some sort of fail over or redundant setup as long as the motherboard supports it.
I am running a basic AMD board that supports ECC. I have 8GB of RAM and it shows up as 8GB of RAM. My question is, does the ECC require some sort of parity overhead in order to work?
Like RAID5 requires one drives capacity to be sacrificed for parity. Is ECC the same way?
Seems like a silly question at first but now I am thrown for a loop on how ECC works when you are not losing any capacity.
I know ECC ram can be configured in some sort of fail over or redundant setup as long as the motherboard supports it.
I am running a basic AMD board that supports ECC. I have 8GB of RAM and it shows up as 8GB of RAM. My question is, does the ECC require some sort of parity overhead in order to work?
Like RAID5 requires one drives capacity to be sacrificed for parity. Is ECC the same way?
Seems like a silly question at first but now I am thrown for a loop on how ECC works when you are not losing any capacity.