Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces
by baq on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:09PM
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it only takes one bit flip in the FS cache, which is what your 'free' RAM will be used for, to make your day miserable. ECC (maybe) isn't worth it for consumers of content, but for creators it should be standard. not to mention rowhammer-like attacks which ECC makes harder though not impossible.
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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces
by thomastjeffery on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:34PM
(#16092533)
Just because there are real reasons to have ECC does not mean you are going to experience them, let alone experience headache because of them.
Software is fault tolerant. Small memory failures can be trivially tolerated.
ECC simply isn't worth the cost, especially for workstations.
Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces
by wtallis on Sunday January 07, 2018 @05:04PM
(#16093004)
> Software is fault tolerant. Small memory failures can be trivially tolerated.
Most software is not at all fault tolerant in this respect. It just crashes. Fortunately, most users are somewhat fault-tolerant.