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Also statistically and in my experience, a low probability event multiplied by a large number of units means millions of people hit hardware failures. It's not
by asveikau 2y ago
Also statistically and in my experience, a low probability event multiplied by a large number of units means millions of people hit hardware failures. It's not at all surprising that someone working on graphics drivers ends up seeing a lot of it.
- vlovich123 2y agoYes, and the issues that ECC can correct for are a small fraction of that overall HW failure rate. And SW issues will always still dominate.
- asveikau 2y agoThere are certain niches where the hardware issues will actually dominate the queue of issues and support requests. One I can relate to is if you have something with low code churn and extremely logically simple that does many gigabytes of I/O per machine over a short period. The maintainer of that code is going to see tons of bad disks. That was me once.