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    DRAM Error rates

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by prime, Nov 3, 2009.

  1. prime

    prime Notebook Consultant

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    prime, Nov 3, 2009
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  2. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    The report seems pretty solid in terms of providing data to back up the claims, but the real question is whether these errors cause any tangible negative costs: downtime, data loss, system reliability, etc. The article says nothing about the practical ramifications of the findings.
     
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    It could be accurate, but I think the writers missed an important part.
    When you RMA memory, usually the manufacturer asks to have you RMA the memory in a kit.
    So If I bought a 8 x 2Gb memory kit, and only one card was defective, Micron asks to send the entire set back.
    So done a few hundred times, and you get quite different numbers.

    Just my $0.02 on that

    K-TRON
     
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  4. prime

    prime Notebook Consultant

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    The study was done at google. I dont think they buy memory in anything as small as groups of 4, or even 40.

    The study is available on line and is linked in the article.
     
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    A server at google that is being used 24/7/365 that is taxing its memory is going to have scads more errors than anything a consumer would use.
     
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  6. Bog

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    Why would it matter anyways, with ECC memory?
     
    Bog, Nov 3, 2009
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