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You have the good fortune of being able to afford lots of expensive hardware. Mandating ECC is basically like mandating seat-belts in all cars: it makes safety
by indolering 4y ago
You have the good fortune of being able to afford lots of expensive hardware. Mandating ECC is basically like mandating seat-belts in all cars: it makes safety cheaper for everyone through the economies of scale. Gamers and libertarians could theoretically disable it if they so chose and the total cost to them would only be a few pennies for the wasted motherboard circuitry.
- intrasight 4y agoBut he said "right" not "mandate". My point was only that I currently do have an implicit right. ECC memory isn't that much more expensive. I was fortunate to build my current machine a few months before memory prices doubled. Previous generation Xeon CPUs aren't very expensive. Same with motherboards. And another option is to just buy a used server. These are super cheap now as so many companies are moving to cloud computing.