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by anonymous_user9 20 hours ago
Yes things fail, but currently random bit flips are not considered a failure.
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The big companies consider them a failure in their own computers, so they use appropriate memory, but they consider that "consumers" either must accept them as normal and not a failure, or pay a great overprice in comparison with what a big company pays, in order to have memory devices with error detection.
They are, that’s why ECC exists, and those who are willing to pay for it, can get it.