alt Hacker NewsOk, I'll bite - what tangible benefit would ECC give to the average consumer? I'd wager in the real world 1000x more data loss/corruption happens due to HDD/SSD failure with no backups.
Personally I genuinely don't care about ECC ram and I would not pay more than $10 additional price to get it.
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immibis • 10/12/2024
My Threadripper 7000 system with ECC DDR5 and MCE logging reports a corrected bit error every few hours, but I've got no idea if that's normal. I assume it was a tradeoff for memory density.
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Most users experience data loss due to ECC these days. They just might not attribute it to cosmic rays. It's kinda hard to tell ECC data loss apart from intermittent hardware failure. It can be just as catastrophic though, if the bit flip hits a critical bit of information and ends up corrupting the disk entirely.