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Since I was curious, it appears that IBM did research in the 90s and came up with 1 per 256mb RAM per month. That's 3.7 × 10-9 per byte per month or 1.4 × 10-15
by forrestthewoods 12y ago
Since I was curious, it appears that IBM did research in the 90s and came up with 1 per 256mb RAM per month. That's 3.7 × 10-9 per byte per month or 1.4 × 10-15 per byte per second.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what-is-the-probability-they-will-affect-a-program http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2580933/cosmic-rays-what-...
- cma 12y agoThe surface area of 256MB of ram has shrunk a lot since then.
- Dylan16807 12y agoThough the bits have gotten more fragile.