Ever since the idea of setting up my own reliable server had me thinking “I need ECC”…
So, over the period of some 6 months, I finally bit the bullet (not to mention the credit card) and purchased an Asrock C236WSI, Intel Xeon E3-1225v6 and 2x Kingston ValueRAM ECC DDR4 2400MHz 16GB UDIMMs… Culminating in final receipt of all the items in July 2017 (I purchased the two sticks of RAM within a day of each other, but Amazon shipped the wrong item for the second stick… twice).
So yes, this post is long overdue… And basically explains the long gap between the last post mid-2017 till now – I have been fighting with this new server hardware and the original draft was first drawn up in September 2017 (refer to date in the URL/permalink).
