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3 reasons ECC RAM is overkill (but still good to have)

Error Correction Code (ECC) memory helps to protect your system from data corruption. Data errors on RAM are fairly uncommon and you won't likely encounter one ...
Ars Technica

Quick question on mixing memory types (ECC and Non ECC)

I have a Tyan Tiger MP with two Crucial 256Dimms in it. They are registered yet not ECC (heh, I thought I'd save $5 a chip when I bought them)<BR><BR>Most the memory I'm finding now is ECC/Registered ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Error Correction Code (ECC)

Four types of DRAM ECC. (a) Side-band ECC, where codes are stored in a memory chip separate from the data. (b) In-line ECC, where the internal memory of each chip is divided between data and code. For ...
Ars Technica

Why don’t PCs use error correcting RAM? “Because Intel,” says Linus

This Monday, Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds went on a frustrated rant about the lack of Error Correcting Checksum (ECC) RAM in consumer PCs and laptops. … the ...