Re:Why Use ECC Memory
by asveikau on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @10:24AM
(#40298462)
Also statistically and in my experience, a low probability event multiplied by a large number of units means millions of people hit hardware failures. It's not at all surprising that someone working on graphics drivers ends up seeing a lot of it.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Why Use ECC Memory
by vlovich123 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @11:47AM
(#40299466)
Yes, and the issues that ECC can correct for are a small fraction of that overall HW failure rate. And SW issues will always still dominate.
There are certain niches where the hardware issues will actually dominate the queue of issues and support requests.
One I can relate to is if you have something with low code churn and extremely logically simple that does many gigabytes of I/O per machine over a short period. The maintainer of that code is going to see tons of bad disks. That was me once.