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> even servers with ECC memory, aren't quite as reliable as you wished. This made me recall a recent post by Linus criticizing Intel[1]. I didn't even know thi

• dijit 5y ago
  it always gave me great pause when people (even on HN) decried ECC as unnecessary, often citing Googles first servers as evidence of that. I operated at considerably smaller scale than Google and saw enough memory errors to curl my toenails- to the point I even bought a laptop with a Xeon processor and "ECC ram" though it was exhorbitantly expensive, hard to find and doesn't have a viable successor. And, for what it's worth, Google recanted that idea and are operating with ECC now.
• ClumsyPilot 5y ago
  It is breathtaking how arrogance by Intel has reuined an entire industry and, I bet, cost people money and ruined lives. We should have never allowed CPU instructions to be protectable. Similarly, even though ZFS and BTRFS have checksums and data integrity, we continue to push unreliable data storage to consumers with no replication. We have no checks and balances on this infustry, and I dont know how to fix it without bringing down the legal hammer.