[Gllug] RAM in Intel boxes is very power hungry

[David Coles]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Peter Childs wrote:

> Mind you I've seen Servers with ECC memory fall over with memory errors,...

Which is the great thing about it! Because at least the box knows that it 
had a memory error so stopped going any further and didn't write a 
steaming pile of crap back to your disks which you only realise six months 
down the line when your database/music/filesystem is trashed.

And if you really care get a server with a "Redundant Array of 
Industry-standard DIMMs" so it can keep going even in the face of a 
failing module/extreme cosmic rays :)

--
David

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