On 3/28/06, Jonathan Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But for a production machine that is "producing" something of value, the > extra cost should not be an issue. RAM errors are so subtle and so hard > to find that ECC is of far more value than RAID. It is obvious when > your disk fails. > > An extra high bit in a credit transaction could cost you $16,384 and you > might not ever realize what happened. :) > > Anyway, off topic, but ECC is highly recommended.
And with the amount of memory that people are putting in modern system 1 bit events should be happening on a approx weekly basis. ECC may be more expensive but it doesn't make memory more expensive than it was just a few years ago.... you really should have it. But this has gone far offtopic.
