Re:Why Use ECC Memory
by vlovich123 on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @11:47AM
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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.
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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.