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by cromka 632 days ago
DDR5 has in-band ECC by default on all platforms, though.
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DDR5 doesn't have an In-Band ECC. What they have is On-Die ECC, and is not visible to the memory controller (i.e. error information won't be reported by EDAC), and only corrects 1-bit when they're stored/retrieved, where Side-Band ECC (regular ECC) and In-Band ECC can correct 1-bit and detect 2-bits, and can also correct/detect memory corruption during transit.
Ohhh right, right, I had them mixed up! Thanks for the clarification.