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Bold claim. I will just highlight that Linus Torvalds disagrees[0], and that this sort of thing[1] happens whenever there's a geomagnetic storm. 0. https://ar
by snvzz 2y ago
Bold claim.
I will just highlight that Linus Torvalds disagrees[0], and that this sort of thing[1] happens whenever there's a geomagnetic storm.
0. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/linus-torvalds-blames-intel-for-lack-of-ecc-ram-in-consumer-pcs/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/linus-torvalds-blame...
1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762568 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762568
- dangus 2y agoNot really a bold claim. The performance impact and additional expense of ECC RAM is not really worth it for most consumer applications, like gaming. It's especially not worth it if you're storing all your critical data on cloud services that already run on server-grade hardware. Why do I care about ECC memory if the source of truth of my data is in cloud services like S3 that have impossibly high durability standards? We can even back it up a bit and say, how do you know that data loss isn't acceptable to me? Is ECC memory really more protective compared to a 3-2-1 backup system? ECC memory can't stop my house from burning down or having water intrusion destroy my system. I think a lot of those "natural" causes of data loss are more statistically probable. Finally, it's my understanding that filesystems with checksums can essentially mitigate this problem or warn you very early of issues.