This is already possible for ECC RAM: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/xeon-e7-family-ras-server-paper.pdf http://www.i

This is already possible for ECC RAM: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/xeon-e7-family-ras-server-paper.pdf http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/... So even an application can recover from unrecoverable ECC errors. But it's not feasible to solve this in applications, since there are many scenarios where such storage should simply be transparent.