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0 pointsloeg20d ago0 comments

And that consumer device should have ECC! That's the whole discussion here.

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It's confusing because a few comments up is "for the vast majority of people single core performance is all they care about, it's also cheaper" which is unrelated to ECC.

loegOP20d ago

I think it's coherent -- it's an argument for why most people don't want to buy Workstation class products just to get ECC. (Prices scale with core count. Not linearly, but still.)

rafaelmn19d ago

Why ? If your device is a thin client for web services/gaming the risk of bitflips/bad ram is a minor annoyance.

loegOP19d ago

I disagree with your handwaving bitflips away as a minor annoyance. Consumers don't love software crashing, even if they don't have any data they care about.

Imagine ECC was free -- would you rather have free ECC and no bitflips, or no ECC and bitflips? It's hard to imagine choosing bitflips.

throwaway8582517d ago

ECC would save an unbelievable amount of labor. A shocking number of people have jobs looking at various logs.

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