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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by hatsunearu on Monday March 20, 2017 @08:26PM (#13918845)
"ignores your mapping" is pretty generous considering rowhammer doesn't work on ECC RAM.
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Re:Intel’s first Optane SSD: 375GB that you can also use as RAM by viraptor on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:43AM (#13920848)
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

> Tests show that simple ECC solutions, providing single-error correction and double-error detection (SECDED) capabilities, are not able to correct or detect all observed disturbance errors because some of them include more than two flipped bits per memory word

But anyway - even if ECC was perfect at preventing the issue, lots of hosts do not use ECC. That includes practically every desktop.

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