ECC RAM doesn't prevent _all_ hardware transient errors. It doesn't even prevent the majority of them. But whenever you get a bug report, is really the first t

ECC RAM doesn't prevent _all_ hardware transient errors. It doesn't even prevent the majority of them. But whenever you get a bug report, is really the first thing that comes to mind "maybe their hardware had a transient error?"? The amount of software vs hardware bugs is still like a thousand to one, and that's _even_ for companies which receive a disproportionate amount of hardware errors (like OS vendors). For regular software, I'd bet it's a couple million to one.