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Comment by buildbot

1 month ago

Last major storm I saw a significant number of single bit errors on my main server - never happened again, still using the same ram. So +1 anecdote

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dosnem  1 month ago

Is this detectable without some parity checks?

  • danielheath  1 month ago

    No, but ECC ram gives you _hardware_ parity checks, which is much faster and doesn’t require you to change your code.

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