> in many cases it's all about location. Where I used to live, 7200 feet > up, it was a huge issue. Where you live, i am assuming close to sea > level, and with a small number of machines, the statistics say that > you're unlikely to see it. But I would not want to take several > thousand of your machines to Los Alamos and try to make them run ...
exactly. and coraid storage appliances use ecc throughout the datapath. all i'm saying is that 1 error per 3 days per 4 gb at sea level (the orginal claim) seems exaggerated to me. i believe my sample size is big enough to refute that claim to very high confidence. - erik
