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Why is it so hard to find laptops with ECC memory? Surely SO-DIMMs are just as susceptible to bitflips as regular Desktop DIMMs? Am I the only one to care abo
by lurtbancaster 5y ago
Why is it so hard to find laptops with ECC memory?
Surely SO-DIMMs are just as susceptible to bitflips as regular Desktop DIMMs?
Am I the only one to care about this?
- reilly3000 5y agoI believe ECC is incredibly hard to get these days, but I could be out of touch. It certainly was last year. I haven’t seen it in many laptop offerings over the years, except perhaps Dell’s workstation-type offerings as an option. I’m curious if bitflips have been an issue for you in your experience. I don’t think I’ve encountered it, but I may have misattributed various bugs to software defects when they were in fact due to bit flips.
- lurtbancaster 5y agoThat's the problem with bitflips isn't it? It's only a possibility that can be considered when all other possibilities have been eliminated. Whenever I've had non-ECC systems KPs/BSODs, it's possible that it might just be due to a bug, but in the back of my mind, I know there's always the possibility that it was due to a bitflip. I feel psychologically uncomfortable working on a computer without ECC. I say ECC everything - Desktops, Laptops, and even smartphones. This laptop proclaims a maximum of 64GB of RAM. If you do populate the slots with that much non-ECC RAM, that only further increases the surface area for random bitflips. What use is more RAM in a Linux laptop if it hasn't been made more reliable? It's high time more laptops shipped with ECC. At least unregistered ECC, if not buffered ones.