Failover is useless when you have already increased your chances of corrupting data. Even with ECC there's some degree of corruption; doing without is suicidal.

Failover is useless when you have already increased your chances of corrupting data. Even with ECC there's some degree of corruption; doing without is suicidal. Google figured quite early in its life that RAM was the one component not to skimp on: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html