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Comment by colanderman

9 years ago

> There is roughly 3% chance of error in RAM per DIMM per year. […] with 100K machines each with 8 DIMM, you are looking at about 6K machines experiencing RAM errors each day.

Can you work out the math? I don't follow it. 3%×100K×8÷365=66 per day by my reasoning…

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TheSmiddy  9 years ago

they've multiplied by 3 instead of 0.03

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