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Group: rec.audio.pro · Group Profile
Author: Richard CrowleyRichard Crowley Date: May 13, 2008 16:55
"Soundhaspriority" wrote ...
> Rich, I'm surprised. First you implied that I am gullible with respect to
> what I read,
Given the actual soft-error rates real people experience out
in the world, the article seems suspicious. I question
*everything* I read, don't you?
> and now you're trying a credentials war.
None of the Q&R people use computers with ECC.
If they aren't worred about it, dunno why I should be.
I'd rather spend the $$$ on more (non-ECC) RAM.
> ALL servers, without exception, use ECC for good reason.
The risk of soft errors is not zero. But it isn't high enough to
warrant using ECC in workstations. The stakes are higher in
servers, so it is more common in that application.
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