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Been using a home-built workstation for over a decade now with 64GB ECC RAM (high performance sticks for the time). It's one of three such PC's in service her
by rkagerer 6y ago
Been using a home-built workstation for over a decade now with 64GB ECC RAM (high performance sticks for the time). It's one of three such PC's in service here. Over the years a couple modules developed problems and were replaced. Glad for the ECC. Those errors might have manifest as silent corruption issues instead.
- adrian_b 6y agoYes, I also use only ECC memories in all my computers for the same reason. When they are new, memory errors are very seldom, if at all. Nevertheless, after several years of use, I had many cases when some DIMM modules began suddenly to have frequent errors and being notified by ECC allowed me to replace the modules (or the motherboards if they were very old) before causing unrecoverable data corruption.