Re: Any good ARM based hardware for NetBSD fileserver

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 02:33:18PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 12:22:23PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> >> 
> >> tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> >> >I'd like to have a fileserver only, running NetBSD, so since it needs
> >> >only a CPU, no floating point unit, no GPU and should not be another
> >> >electric heater, an ARM based one comes to mind.
> >> 
> >> I have a lot of ARM systems but my fileserver is an x86 HP MicroServer.
> >> 
> >> Prefer having ECC RAM on something like this.
> >
> >Can you elaborate? Because ECC for RAM is specified Cortex-R7 Technical
> >Reference for example. So ECC is available, for me, on ARM?
> 
> Most cheap ARM systems have their RAM soldered to the PCB, so even if
> the CPU supports ECC the system can't use it.

OK, thanks! I will look closely to the specs...
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