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I want to know why ECC RAM isn't more common. With the amount of RAM going into today's computers, it's insane not to protect it.
by mark-r 7y ago
I want to know why ECC RAM isn't more common. With the amount of RAM going into today's computers, it's insane not to protect it.
- microcolonel 7y agoIt costs something in terms of timing, power, complexity, and space overhead; software errors are by far the lower-hanging fruit for the overwhelming majority of systems.
- fortran77 7y agoI only use it. But "gamers" who like to overclock, and AMD users who use motherboards that don't generally support ECC don't care. For professional work, I think you'd be crazy not to. You get 1 bit-flip per year per gigabyte. So for my 128GB system we use on desktop configurations and build servers we'd get 2 bit flips/week. Do you really want to send a build out to a customer that has a potential bit-flip in it?
- beagle3 7y agoIt’s a market segmentation issue for Intel, which AMD has started undermining but has not yet frontally attacked - perhaps they still have plans to (ab)use it themselves.
- mark-r 7y agoECC is exactly why my last system build was a Ryzen.