[NelsonMinar]

Good disclosure on the part of Dribbble.

I have some sympathy; I've seen a Linux server randomly corrupt its file cache, no idea why. Google's study found 8% of DIMMs experienced at least one memory error a year. If you can't trust your RAM, what can you trust? http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html

[manmal]

In ECC we trust.

[NelsonMinar]

One of the great ironies of modern computing is that we stopped building ECC into consumer hardware right when we got enough RAM to really need it. What fraction of server hosting has ECC RAM? No one seems to know if Amazon EC2 does, for instance, which suggests it probably doesn't.

[nodesocket]

I would be really surprised if the memory on EC2 is not ECC. 32GB of ECC only runs $399.00 on Crucial.