This is why if I care about data on a system, I want that system to have ECC RAM.
Proper burn-in testing helps too; but ECC will help me later after things have aged. Maybe I should add a yearly re-validation to systems.
Proper burn-in testing helps too; but ECC will help me later after things have aged. Maybe I should add a yearly re-validation to systems.
My current build is a borosilicate water-cooled dual Rome EPYC with ½ a TiB of ECC RAM. I already had it planned before the media went gaga over AMD. I just hope prices don't spike too much before I drop what's already going to be $13k to get this done.
PS: 72-bit (64,8) SECDED ECC RDRAM typically uses 4-bit-wide chips in multiples of 18 chips (# = ranks, 36 for 2R), whereas consumer 64-bit DDR4 uses 8-bit chips, in multiples of 8 chips. Also, does anyone remember IBM's Chipkill?