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The whole story about ECC ram in the computer industry is completely insane. RAM is basically the only place in most PC not protected by a form of ECC, except o
by xorblurb 10y ago
The whole story about ECC ram in the computer industry is completely insane. RAM is basically the only place in most PC not protected by a form of ECC, except on expensive (or at least less produced) Xeon (or maybe some AMD, I don't know which ones). I don't know if caches on most ARM processors have ECC, but the situation might very well be the same on smartphone. Sad...
- secabeen 10y agoStrangely, there are a bunch of low-end pentiums that support ECC.
- jeeva 10y agoFor the lightweight home/small office server-type things, aren't they?
- xorblurb 10y agoProbably "industrial" low-end pentiums, for projects where reliability is needed but even a Xeon E3 would be overkill. The thing is that it is considered that ECC in RAM is not needed for consumer electronics, but that's utterly insane.
- alfalfasprout 10y agoIf I'm not mistaken, all Xeon E5 and E7 processors support registered ECC memory. Many (if not most) multi-socket Xeon motherboards won't even let you install non-ECC memory. Here's the thing... there's really not much of a point in ECC memory for most desktops and laptops. In servers, sure... in mission critical applications even a tiny memory error could have devastating consequences. But for someone browsing facebook? Nah.
- frou_dh 10y agoWhat's the point of perpetuating a miserly "they don't need/deserve $BETTER_TECH" attitude? The general march of progress in computing has been about better technology iteratively trickling down to everybody. I don't "need" my phone to have a 64bit CPU, but I'll take it. Glad it does. No doubt a few years ago someone was saying... "64bit should be a PC thing. Phones? Nah." ...like it was some kind of law, rather than just the point-in-time market situation.