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I feel like it would have to be much more frequent than that (at least monthly with perceivable consequences) to get a typical user to care.
by vernie 10y ago
I feel like it would have to be much more frequent than that (at least monthly with perceivable consequences) to get a typical user to care.
- ascagnel_ 10y agoThe Wikipedia [0] page for ECC RAM states that Cassini-Huygens spacecraft had a fairly static count of 280 errors/day. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
- vernie 10y agoMost desktop computers aren't in space.
- falcolas 10y agoThat same wiki article references Google's experienced numbers, with a high end of "about 5 single bit errors in 8 Gigabytes of RAM per hour"
- monocasa 10y agoGoogle at the time was buying memory chips that had failed manufacturer QA, stuffing them on to DIMMs themselves, and then running whatever seemed to pass.
- ascagnel_ 9y agoThat number was consistent on-the-ground pre-launch and post-launch (with the exception of a short period of higher error instances due to a solar flare).
- StillBored 10y agoEeek, at those rates surely there are some undetected triple flips.