▲ 44 ▼ Dealing with faulty RAM modules in 2026 (blog.kumio.org) submitted 10 months ago by kumi@feddit.online to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 11 comments fedilink hide all child comments How to test and safely keep using your janky RAM without compromising stability using memtest86+ and the memmap kernel param.
[–] user1234@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 10 months ago (2 children) Needing 1TB of RAM is far outside the standard case. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago Well he technically only need 512 gigs but had to double it because some dude on the internet said so. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kumi@feddit.online [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) OK, so let's cut it down and say we have 4 PCs for someone with a family and home server, with 4 DIMMs each. You are saying the first rule of PC building says that this house should have at least 16 unused DIMMs on the shelf. I'd say 2-4 is reasonable if they are all compatible. "Buy two extra of everything" is a good rule and scales for the individual. "Buy double of everything" is not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago Well he technically only need 512 gigs but had to double it because some dude on the internet said so. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kumi@feddit.online [S] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) OK, so let's cut it down and say we have 4 PCs for someone with a family and home server, with 4 DIMMs each. You are saying the first rule of PC building says that this house should have at least 16 unused DIMMs on the shelf. I'd say 2-4 is reasonable if they are all compatible. "Buy two extra of everything" is a good rule and scales for the individual. "Buy double of everything" is not. permalink fedilink source parent