> " I guess you don't really know that you needed ECC until it's too late."
I spent many years on hardware consultation and was amazed at the all the times I had to explain it was just a what if insurance like any other things their business was mitigating against. Sometimes they'd even decided they needed to save costs in non-ecc ram when it was $4 a gb in difference, or (during the FB-DIMM era) there wasn't even an option to avoid it.
Never really understood the resistance towards it.
Maybe the lack of evidence before the Google study and people thinking RAM manufacturers were trying to rip them off or something.
The "never had a problem so why would I need" it attitude with no way to know if an issue was caused by a bit flip was most baffling.
I spent many years on hardware consultation and was amazed at the all the times I had to explain it was just a what if insurance like any other things their business was mitigating against. Sometimes they'd even decided they needed to save costs in non-ecc ram when it was $4 a gb in difference, or (during the FB-DIMM era) there wasn't even an option to avoid it.
Never really understood the resistance towards it.
Maybe the lack of evidence before the Google study and people thinking RAM manufacturers were trying to rip them off or something.
The "never had a problem so why would I need" it attitude with no way to know if an issue was caused by a bit flip was most baffling.