Geek Help - ECC Memory

[crokett]

Ah, Moot OS, I've been watching that site for a few years, LOL.

I downloaded the unRAID system and downloaded a boot loader. I need that because unRAID was designed to go on bootable USB but the Dell doesn't have that support. The bootloader is a CD image that you can boot and then boot USB.

If anybody is interested: http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager.html

[JSUPreston]

I'll bet you were. GB capacity hard drives weren't even available then
I bought my first 5 GB hard drive back in 1993 or so, for $1500!
!

Oops, I was a little distracted. I meant a 250MB drive. It was late, and we were trying to get an uncooperative child in the bed.

About a year later I saw an ad for a 9GB SCSI drive. They wanted a little less than $9,000 for it! It was several years later before I could afford a drive of that size.

[JSUPreston]

I've got you beat. Mine was an H11 (PDP-11/40).

And I'll bet there are some people here that can beat that.

Show off!

Seriously, I never got the chance to use one, but it appears that they were great machines. Seems like there is always someone around that has used them.

[crokett]

Oops, I was a little distracted. I meant a 250MB drive. It was late, and we were trying to get an uncooperative child in the bed.
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I remember buying a 200MB drive for 200 bucks and getting a heckuva deal. I am looking at prices now and a SATA 1.5TB drive retails for a bit over 100 bucks. My dad said he remembers a 10MB selling for several thousand.

[sparkeyjames]

It all depends on what motherboard you get. Some do not support ECC memory. Check before you buy. Also ECC memory tends to be just a tad more expensive than the more common non-ECC type.

On hard drive sizes and computing in the stone age....

I hit the computer thing just when prices started to be affordable. You could get a whopping 5.24" 20MB seagate hard drive for around $250. They sounded like a hive of bee's in your computer. A friend of mine bought a 225MB SCSI hard drive that had 7 platters that cost him in the neighborhood of $1000 probably around 1987-88.
I build my dad a computer some years ago I think 2001. He got a 10GB drive and he paid $120 for it. Now $120 will get you a 1 terabyte drive or larger.
I am waiting for large solid state drives to become affordable. The silence will be nice.