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Re:What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla by nomel on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @04:55PM (#31020140)
> I therefore doubt that the estimation of "1/256MB/month" is correct

The probability is related to the physical volume the memory takes, since it's caused by a physical particle going through that volume. So, this rate will continuously drop as memory density increases.

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Re:What Flips Your Bit: Cosmic Ray Errors at Mozilla by Rebelgecko on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @09:55PM (#31022595)
My understanding is that newer/denser transistors are actually more susceptible to single event upsets, because it takes less energy to flip a bit.
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