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The other way of looking at it is that a huge portion of the market is running non-ECC ram and it hasn't resulted in any measurable reduction of security or sta
by gambiting 4y ago
The other way of looking at it is that a huge portion of the market is running non-ECC ram and it hasn't resulted in any measurable reduction of security or stability of operating systems worldwide. So maybe it really isn't necessary for your average user, and manufacturing ECC ram for users who ultimately don't need it would be just a waste(both financial and environmental).
- goodpoint 4y ago> hasn't resulted in any measurable reduction of security or stability of operating systems worldwide Except it did.
- hunterb123 4y agoBy how much?
- goodpoint 4y agoMore than zero.
- hunterb123 4y ago> in any measurable reduction
- int_19h 4y agoHow do we know that it didn't?
- HappyTypist 4y agoHow many consumer OS crashes can be attributed to RAM errors? How many corrupt files, strange bugs, or quirks can be attributed?
- doublepg23 4y agoGoogle researched the topic over 2.5 years last decade and did find a notable amount [1]. "Bitsquatting" has also been seen in the wild in the past decade [2]. [1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/35162.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting
- gambiting 4y agoI stand corrected then. Thanks for the links.