Comment by jml7c5

As I understand it, DDR5's on-die ECC is mostly a cost-saving measure. Rather than fab perfect DRAM that never flips a bit in normal operation (expensive, lower yield), you can fab imperfect DRAM that is expected to sometimes flip, but then use internal ECC to silently correct it. The end result to the user is theoretically the same.

Because you can't track on-die ECC errors, you have no way of knowing how "faulty" a particular DRAM chip is. And if there's an uncorrected error, you can't detect it.