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Re:Mac mini by klodolph on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:55AM (#22616654)
ECC would be cool for using these for remote builds. Don't know if that's ever going to happen.
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Re:Mac mini by skysea on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:19AM (#22616910)
Absolutely an ECC would be great and cool. However, I'm not sure if Apple is going to provide ECC memory since they already do with Mac Pro's and they might want people to just buy a Mac Pro instead of Mac Mini.
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Re:Mac mini by silviogutierrez on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:39PM (#22620414)
Curious, why does ECC matter for remote builds? Any explanation is appreciated!
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Re:Mac mini by klodolph on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:02AM (#22628124)
If there is a bit flipped in your build, you then propagate the bad bit to potentially millions of machines. Bit flips in non-ECC memory are common enough that this is a concern in practice.
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Re:Mac mini by mrpippy on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:33PM (#22624155)
Intel only allows ECC with Xeons, meaning a big price jump if nothing else.
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