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Comment by withinboredom

1 day ago

Bitflips are surprisingly more common than you think but rare enough to not be a concern.

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jmalicki  1 day ago

If you have ECC memory, you can actually monitor this.

I've typically seen ~a dozen bitflips per year per machine when I looked at this on servers, except for the cases of a faulty RAM module.

I am more worried about SSD corruption than RAM bitflips from data I've seen on my systems.

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