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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by ihsw2 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:19PM (#16277165)
I'm not the parent commenter but it's probably finance or CAD modeling, environments where soft bit-errors (ones that silently and unpredictably cause data corruption rather than hard-crashes that are reproducible) can lead to nightmares.
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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by usefulcat on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @03:38PM (#16277326)
Or could be using ZFS
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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by loeg on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:34PM (#16278155)
"There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem." - Matt Ahrens[0]

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...

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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by usefulcat on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:05PM (#16284078)
I didn't say it was required. It's not uncommon for people to want to use ZFS specifically because they highly value data integrity. If that's the case, then it probably makes sense to use ECC.
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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by godzillabrennus on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:01AM (#16280286)
Except there is:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ecc-vs-non-ecc-...

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Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong ... by scineram on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:42AM (#16289271)
There is not.
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