DRAM Error Rates

Robin Harris (via John Siracusa): A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought — a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year. […] Most DIMMs don’t include ECC because it costs more. Without ECC the system … Continue reading DRAM Error Rates