On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:45:15PM -0700, Craig James wrote:
We're thinking of building some new servers. We bought some a while back
that have ECC (error correcting) RAM, which is absurdly expensive compared
to the same amount of non-ECC RAM. Does anyone have any real-life data
about the error rate of non-ECC RAM, and whether it matters or not? In my
long career, I've never once had a computer that corrupted memory, or at
least I never knew if it did.
...because ECC RAM will correct single bit errors. FWIW, I've seen *a
lot* of single bit errors over the years. Some systems are much better
about reporting than others, but any system will have occasional errors.
Also, if a stick starts to go bad you'll generally be told about with
ECC memory, rather than having the system just start to flake out.
Mike Stone
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