Does this really matter in 2013? Serious question. I could see ECC having been u...

seanp2k2 · on June 11, 2013

Check out http://linux.die.net/man/1/edac-util + http://buttersideup.com/edacwiki/Main_Page and look on some servers to see if they're seeing many correctable ECC errors. I've def. seen it happen on some Dell PERCs.

rainforest · on June 11, 2013

The probability of a bit error on normal RAM is quite high [1]. The more RAM you add the more likely you are to see corruption. Not that ECC fixes everything - I still see uncorrected ECC errors on the older HPC nodes on our grid.

[1] : http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory