Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
by vernie on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:02PM
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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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The Wikipedia [0] page for ECC RAM states that Cassini-Huygens spacecraft had a fairly static count of 280 errors/day.
Most desktop computers aren't in space.
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"
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.
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).
Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
by StillBored on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:59PM
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Eeek, at those rates surely there are some undetected triple flips.