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is ecc passe?

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besonen

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i've built systems with ecc memory longer than i can remember.

recently i read a comment somewhere where a person stated that the original premise regarding the frequency of ram errors was skewed too high and that the errors were in fact so rare that there was no need for ecc. i believe this person also commented that ram being manufactured today was even less error prone than ram that was manufactured years ago - thus adding weight to their argument that ecc was unnecessary.

while i don't plan on ditching ecc ram anytime soon i am curious if anyone has seen any data to backup the notion that ecc is unnecessary?
 
I haven't seen any numbers of reliability of RAM today or in the past, but I do know that the error rate hasn't dropped to zero. So ECC will provide some benefit correcting the (possibly very rare) errors that do come up. If you really care about the integrity of your data, this fact alone will help you sleep at night. Additionally, ECC can detect single-bit errors, so you may receive warning when your RAM is going bad, before any damage actually occurs.
 
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