[Gllug] RAM in Intel boxes is very power hungry

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Mon Feb 9 21:55:13 UTC 2009


On 9 Feb 2009, t. clarke stated:

> By the way,  for my money,  ECC memory on a server is the only way to go - I
> have seen too many PCs fall over due to flaky 'ordinary' memory.

Not just that. Natural radioactivity probably flips a bit a week or
thereabouts given current memory densities and the amount of RAM in most
machines, these days. (Warning: genuine BOTE guesswork.)
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