Comment by loeg
3 months ago
I disagree with your handwaving bitflips away as a minor annoyance. Consumers don't love software crashing, even if they don't have any data they care about.
Imagine ECC was free -- would you rather have free ECC and no bitflips, or no ECC and bitflips? It's hard to imagine choosing bitflips.
ECC would save an unbelievable amount of labor. A shocking number of people have jobs looking at various logs.