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> Alternately, it might be a plan to create literal cloud computing. Thanks, I just snorted tea onto my keyboard after reading that. Seems like if you have the
by orf 11y ago
> Alternately, it might be a plan to create literal cloud computing.
Thanks, I just snorted tea onto my keyboard after reading that. Seems like if you have the money and are maintaining a pretty critical system it would be silly not to get ECC RAM (and if you're building your own iron the price difference isn't that much as far as I can tell).
On the EC2 site they say "In our experience, ECC memory is necessary for server infrastructure, and all the hardware underlying Amazon EC2 uses ECC memory"[1]. Amazon maintain a lot of servers and if they think it's necessary I'm inclined to believe them.
1. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/
- codinghorror 11y agoA big part of the value proposition of ECC does seem to hinge on having thousands, and perhaps _many_ thousands of machines working together. At a large enough scale even small statistics start to matter.
- Alupis 11y agoIt's more a value proposition of how long the machine will be running. Given time, it will get corrupt bits. You don't need thousands of machines to experience memory corruption...