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immibis10/12/20241 replyview on HN

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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MichaelZuo10/12/2024

This, memory densities are so high nowadays it’s almost guaranteed that a new computer bought in 2024 will hard fault with actual consequences (crashing, corrupted data, etc…) at least once a year due to lack of ECC.