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elAhmotoday at 4:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

Is ECC RAM that much valuable in day to day for non-critical usages?


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Aldipowertoday at 4:44 PM

Short: Yes, but of course it depends. Long: I am dealing with a huge amount of fitness related health data which gets aggregated into metrics. If those metrics are wrong, for whatever reason, this is not great.

If you just run some blogs, of course, this is not important.

sphtoday at 4:40 PM

The risk of bit flips is a percentage. The more RAM you have, the greater the likelihood. I have experienced heisenbugs on my 64 GB desktop that I bet were because of random bit flips

Havoctoday at 5:11 PM

I’ve had it catch a bunch of errors on borderline memory at home. (Despite the memory passing memtests).

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