I went out of my way for ECC because losing files can mean losing days of work. With how much a sweng gets paid it's worth the ECC premium if it saves me a few

I went out of my way for ECC because losing files can mean losing days of work. With how much a sweng gets paid it's worth the ECC premium if it saves me a few days of work over the life of the machine. Recently I discovered that one of my SSDs was quietly failing without setting off any warnings; doing a chkdsk showed that some files had already gotten corrupted. One of them was my backblaze backup index! Even though I have automated backups (backblaze + macrium backups to a NAS), recovering files from them is non-trivial. If I were to lose work to non-ECC ram who knows how long it would take me to reconstruct a known-good work environment and file set. Imagine if you're working on something huge and hard to validate like neural net weights where corruption can occur silently and be hard to detect after it's happened?