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Can I/Should I upgrade RAM past my machine's recommended specs?
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this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
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Word of caution: I added more than max ram to a Synology server once and it "checked out" but Plex sent garbled transcoded if it were ever used. I feared data corruption on routine data checks so I swapped it back.
That was long ago and doubt newer models have the same limits, but it made me think of the data vs risk factor.
Yeah, fair point. I'd throw an overnight memtest86 load on it before trusting it for anything important. You should always do that with new memory, especially if you're trying to do something unsupported.