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If this also means ECC memory in laptops, that's friggin' amazing. I sometimes dream of a world where consumer equipment has ECC memory. Some say: total overki
by louwrentius 11y ago
If this also means ECC memory in laptops, that's friggin' amazing.
I sometimes dream of a world where consumer equipment has ECC memory. Some say: total overkill. I say: the stats on servers are so that you are probably hit multiple times a year with bit-flips in memory. You'll never know because it's not registered anywhere. But those apps hanging, this strange crash, a corrupted document. All these small things.
Servers aren't desktops/laptops, but I do wonder.
- Freaky 11y agoAbsolutely. Memory errors are insidious because they can look like just about anything - driver bugs, software bugs, disk errors, power issues, media blips, or even nothing at all, just some silent bit of data corruption you don't even notice. It's easy to dismiss the risk when you have no idea how big it is. It's eye-opening once you've managed a few machines with ECC and seen first hand how common correction events are.
- vardump 11y agoAbout time! Workstations equipped with ECC just don't crash or do occasional weird things. ECC helps against all kind of unquantifiable weirdness and unexplainable bugs. I'll be first in line to buy a laptop with ECC. Extra stability is worth it.