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Comment by thousand_nights

3 months ago

overblown? billions of users use consumer tier hardware just fine. i have servers at home with years of uptime without any ECC memory

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conception  3 months ago

But how much bit rot? You’ll never know.

  • Maxion  3 months ago

    If I don't know about it, then how does it affect me / why should I care? My home server does what it is supposed to do and has done so for a decade. If bit rot /bit flips in memory does not affect my day-to-day life I much prefer cheaper hardware.

    I do hope the nuclear powerplant next door uses more fault tolerant hardware, though.

    • loeg  3 months ago

      Eventually you might notice the pictures or other documents you were saving on your home server have artifacts, or no longer open. This is undesireable for most people using computer storage.

      > I much prefer cheaper hardware.

      The cost savings are modest; order of magnitude 12% for the DIMMs, and less elsewhere. Computers are already extremely cheap commodities.

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