[Nottingham] Spontaneous errors in RAM - How often?

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Thu Jul 20 11:34:08 BST 2006


Here's a good question for tonight:

For 1GByte of PC RAM (non-ECC), what is the probability of a bit-flip
due to radiation, cosmic rays, or whatever?

In other words, for very large amounts of PC RAM, how important is it to
use ECC RAM?

Please compute!

Cheers,
Martin

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