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Outside of our bubble, people don't care about ECC memory on their laptop or desktop. It also adds ~12% (iirc) more memory cells, meaning higher memory cost, wh
by lorenzhs 7y ago
Outside of our bubble, people don't care about ECC memory on their laptop or desktop. It also adds ~12% (iirc) more memory cells, meaning higher memory cost, which is going to be a hard sell given that it's a solution to a problem that most customers don't even know about, nor would most care much if it was explained to them. From a user perspective, memory is fine as it is, and if memory corruption does occur, it's probably blamed on buggy software. That would make any such push look like a desperate "we need a differentiator to tell people why they should buy our CPUs and upsell them in the process" move. Competing on price, speed, and (for laptops) power consumption would appear much more promising.
- vardump 7y agoIt needs to be marketed as a reliability improvement it is. Lots of people simply don't know about it at all, but would love better stability.
- kube-system 7y agoThis is mass market retail we’re talking about. Unless it’s easily demonstrable, people are going to buy the prettier box on the shelf or the one that’s cheaper. I’d bet money that when company X adds ECC and calls it “super stable memory”, company Y adds a button in the settings menu that calls fsck and calls that “hyper stable memory” and undercuts company X by 12%.
- baybal2 7y agoActually, you can have ECC without an extra chip, and 4 gen DDRs actually have quote low single bit error rates because they have error correcting PHYs
- viraptor 7y agoPeople don't care about a lot of things until they're told it matters. I mean, look at the "gaming" and "X with RGB" market and tell me people name economically reasonable choices when buying computer hardware. I'm sure marketing could sell quite a few ECC sticks.