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by buildbot 155 days ago
Last major storm I saw a significant number of single bit errors on my main server - never happened again, still using the same ram. So +1 anecdote
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Is this detectable without some parity checks?
No, but ECC ram gives you _hardware_ parity checks, which is much faster and doesn’t require you to change your code.