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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.

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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.

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