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For desktop computers most of the value of ECC comes from not corrupting your hard disk when a ram stick spontaneously goes bad, rather than protecting against
by kiririn 3y ago
For desktop computers most of the value of ECC comes from not corrupting your hard disk when a ram stick spontaneously goes bad, rather than protecting against once in a blue moon bit flips
- AshamedCaptain 3y agoECC is kind of useless when a RAM stick "spontaneously goes bad", unless precisely you are talking about the situation where a single bit goes bad (which is, indeed, less than once in a blue moon).
- kiririn 3y agoIt will spew warnings if correctly setup and may even be able to correct for the fault. Anything that highlights the problem before your unstable system silently corrupts files (and their backups) or hoses its filesystem is a godsend