[Nottingham] Spontaneous errors in RAM - How often?

[Michael Erskine]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:45, ForkBombFluf wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Martin wrote:
> > For 1GByte of PC RAM (non-ECC), what is the probability of a bit-flip
> > due to radiation, cosmic rays, or whatever?
> I'd be very intrigued to hear the answer to this one too, we just had to
> purchase ram for a new server and were faced with the same question.  We
> were unable to find very little useful information on the web regarding
> this, and no real statistics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_RAM#Errors_and_error_correction

Regards,
Michael Erskine.

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