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ECC isn't just for servers. Why do we assume that it's okay for Grandma's laptop to randomly flip bits and crash?
by p1mrx 10y ago
ECC isn't just for servers. Why do we assume that it's okay for Grandma's laptop to randomly flip bits and crash?
- jamespo 10y agoFor the same reason she doesn't run a redundant disk array in there
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoWell, since you ask, and speaking as someone who purposely bought AMD with ECC RAM in the past - because she'd want it that way. It's a bit cheaper, and the downside is an occasional bad cat pic, or maybe an extra browser crash per month to add to the 399 one already gets from poor code ...