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Agreed, my DIY NAS with ECC DDR4 has ran for over 5 years and I have 0 ECC errors in that time. Something must be very wrong with OP's setup. Perhaps the RAM h
by execution 2mo ago
Agreed, my DIY NAS with ECC DDR4 has ran for over 5 years and I have 0 ECC errors in that time.
Something must be very wrong with OP's setup. Perhaps the RAM has been overclocked too far.
- inigyou 2mo agoWell that's DDR4. Apparently DDR5 was made with tighter tolerances and less safety margin, which is why many people argue ECC should be mandatory in DDR5 - it actually relies on it.
- userbinator 2mo agoThere are plenty of DDR5 machines without ECC[1], and yet they're not constantly crashing in the way that frequent bitflips would suggest. [1] DDR5's built-in ECC is not the same as traditional "end to end" ECC, and is meant to correct bitflips on the die, not between the RAM and the CPU, so ECC errors that you see are actually suggestive of a bad connection between the RAM and CPU.
- inigyou 2mo agoMost bitflips don't cause immediate crashes, or crashes at all. They just silently corrupt your data.