To begin with:
I have a consumer grade motherboard that I plan to use freenas with my current hardware.
What I know about zfs:
It is being propagated as the most robust fs currently to mankind, where ECC Ram is a must in order to enjoy that feature.
My questions:
To what extent is that true?
Has someone made a setup with the new amd ryzon cpus since their motherboards support ECC Ram with freenas.
I’m opening this topic not with the intent to start a religious war between the amd and intel fanboyz, I hope that we can keep the topic at a professional level.
That sounds quite encouraging. The videos propagate that you are totally fine when using non-ecc supporting hardware, and you basically won’t land in hell when using consumer grade hardware.
Would be great to see a follow up if a productive machine failes.
We have had some systems fail and we simply replaced the failed part and carry on, even if it is a motherboard. As long as you properly back up your FreeNAS (including the encryption keys if you choose to encrypt the drives) you can restore the pool on another system.