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ECC RAM is more expensive - from a very quick search looks like 16gb ddr4 2666mhz would be about 30% higher price for ECC. I've used non-ECC RAM for my entire
by esperent 6y ago
ECC RAM is more expensive - from a very quick search looks like 16gb ddr4 2666mhz would be about 30% higher price for ECC.
I've used non-ECC RAM for my entire life so far and bit flipping has never caused an obvious error for me, so if I'm going to pay more for ECC RAM I'd need a good reason to do so.
- Sholmesy 6y agoI think the problem with the bitflipping errors, is that you don't necessarily know that they've happened. They are demonstrably broken though, and I agree it should be ECC everywhere