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by Freaky 2087 days ago
> I guess what I don't understand then is what big advantage "enterprise ECC" has left over this DDR5 "non-enterprise ECC"

ECC should be end-to-end, so it detects and (hopefully) corrects errors anywhere along the path, not just within a chip.

Step 1 of handling a lot of ECC correction events is to reseat the DIMM, because often it's just an issue with the connection, not actually a memory defect.

And you may not care too much about reports of correction events, but you definitely want to see correction failures reported - the point is, after all, to avoid corruption.