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Esau | 8 years ago

>I don't need ECC

We all need ECC. It should be a standard feature by now.

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stuff4ben|8 years ago

While I agree, can you explain more about why you think we all need ECC?

TheGorramBatman|8 years ago

https://danluu.com/why-ecc/ is a decent read.

_asummers|8 years ago

I'd also be curious of numbers from people who DO run ECC about how many times it's saved them. Some things it's really necessary for (financial transactions comes to mind). That said, it should be much easier to get ECC in consumer hardware. Major props to AMD for their recent chips that allow it. Hopefully Intel follows suit.

driverdan|8 years ago

I don't have the numbers handy but here's a basic explanation. Due to the amount of RAM we all run today the probability of having a RAM error is surprisingly high. IIRC it's at least once per year.