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by eapotapov 5105 days ago
what's really interesting for me is their brand-name vs white box comparison:

DRAM one-bit flip, Brand: 1 in 2700, White box: 1 in 950 Disk subsystem: Brand: 1 in 180, White box: 1 in 180

Assuming that brand-name desktops have brand-name memory and disks it means:

1. brand of your non-SSD desktop-level HDD absolutely doesn't matter. 2. brand-name memory is 3 times less likely to fail.