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You may have been lucky enough to never experienced a bad module. But when it does happen, it can have major consequences (losing data, having to reinstall an O
by derkades 4y ago
You may have been lucky enough to never experienced a bad module. But when it does happen, it can have major consequences (losing data, having to reinstall an OS). All while being totally preventable.
- kiririn 4y agoNot enough people realise that the driving reason for ECC in home systems is this, not random once-in-a-blue-moon bit flips I’ll always buy ECC after multiple data loss events from ram suddenly going bad, worth every penny to have ECC ring alarm bells rather than put 2+2 together after random BSODs and silent corruption