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That is already how it works now… you can already return defective ram, ECC or not. I am happy with the point in the price/reliability/power usage tradeoff tha
by School-Cotton 3y ago
That is already how it works now… you can already return defective ram, ECC or not.
I am happy with the point in the price/reliability/power usage tradeoff that non-ECC ram represents. Why force me to have fewer choices and use something that is worse for my needs in order to solve a theoretical problem that I don’t care about?
- rvnx 3y agoTo me, it sounds like "if it doesn't work 100.00% of the time, we cannot trust it and should forbid it", but the reality is that neither the world (and even internet) nor electricity nor healthcare, are "100.00% available/reliable". In general don't worry that for very important calculations, they are run a couple of times, at least just to verify.
- snvzz 3y ago>In general don't worry that for very important calculations, they are run a couple of times, at least just to verify. Citation needed, as this is unheard of in software we trust regardless to do banking or sign legally binding documents with.
- sliken 3y agoWell the trick is a process or your entire OS crashed, why? Was it the powersupply? Motherboard? CPU? DIMM? Which DIMM? Are you going to keep a complete PC of spares to replace piece by piece to see if the crash stops? For such a minimal cost I'd rather have DIMM 3 died with a non-correctable error.