My Hackintosh Hardware Spec

Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by driverdan on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:08AM (#14203054)

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.

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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by vernie on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:02PM (#14204188)

I feel like it would have to be much more frequent than that (at least monthly with perceivable consequences) to get a typical user to care.

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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by ascagnel_ on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:53PM (#14204729)

The Wikipedia [0] page for ECC RAM states that Cassini-Huygens spacecraft had a fairly static count of 280 errors/day.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory

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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by vernie on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:17PM (#14204968)

Most desktop computers aren't in space.

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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by falcolas on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:37PM (#14206751)

That same wiki article references Google's experienced numbers, with a high end of "about 5 single bit errors in 8 Gigabytes of RAM per hour"

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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by monocasa on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @05:28PM (#14207169)

Google at the time was buying memory chips that had failed manufacturer QA, stuffing them on to DIMMs themselves, and then running whatever seemed to pass.

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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by ascagnel_ on Thursday April 27, 2017 @02:36PM (#14213732)

That number was consistent on-the-ground pre-launch and post-launch (with the exception of a short period of higher error instances due to a solar flare).

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Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec by StillBored on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:59PM (#14205368)

Eeek, at those rates surely there are some undetected triple flips.

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