[rescue] ECC [was: Re: WOT: Ebay changes to IBM from Sun E10Kservers?]

[Phil Stracchino]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:00:15AM +0200, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
> Uhm. I see the *capability* for using ECC ram on PeeCee motherboards
> somewhat frequently. I don't know ANYONE who has actually bought ECC ram
> for their home PeeCee machines though...

Having had to get one or the other of this machine's two memory sticks
replaced under warrranty three times now for single-bit hard errors, I
figure I'm going to spend the extra 10% and buy ECC next time I buy RAM
for any of my fast Athlon boxes.  Probably consolidate all the non-ECC
RAM into the gamebox and stuff ECC in this machine.  Having to get a
256MB stick replaced for a single-bit error is sorta absurd.


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