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So can a bug.

• dkersten 6y ago
  Yes. And? That doesn't suddenly make bitflips benign.
  • incrudible 6y ago
    The point is that you can't prevent failure by just buying something. You have to deal with the fact that failure can not be prevented. In other words, if a single defective DIMM somewhere in your deployment is causing catastraphic failure, your mistake was not buying the wrong RAM modules. Your mistake was relying on a single point of failure for mission critical data.
    • hda2 6y ago
      People might not be preventing failure by using ECC, but they significantly decrease the likelihood of having to deal with hard-to-debug problems caused by bitflips.