Non-ECC RAM is fine for your N100 home server.

Don’t worry about it. For a low-power file server that you use occasionally, non-ECC memory errors are not something you need to lose sleep over.

ECC RAM exists to catch bit flips in high-availability or data-critical environments—think databases handling financial transactions or servers running 24/7 under heavy load. Your N100 mini PC with a few terabytes of media and documents? The odds of a single-bit error corrupting a file are astronomically low, and even if it happens, most file systems (like ZFS or Btrfs with checksums) will catch it. Plus, the N100 doesn’t support ECC anyway, so you have no choice.

The bigger risk for a home server is a full drive failure, power outage, or user error. Put your energy into backups and a decent UPS instead of worrying about RAM that you can’t even upgrade.

You’re overthinking this. Go set it up and enjoy having your files accessible.