On: HP Unveils Mini Workstation

[bzbarsky]

The #1 consumer use case that would benefit from error-correction would be not having remote exploits due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer

[jpt4 → bzbarsky]

Thank you, that is a compelling argument.

[homarp → jpt4]

the wikipedia page says: " Tests show that simple ECC solutions, providing single-error correction and double-error detection (SECDED) capabilities, are not able to correct or detect all observed disturbance errors because some of them include more than two flipped bits per memory word."

http://serverfault.com/questions/674214/what-is-the-rowhamme... adds "ECC effectively turns the Row Hammer exploit into a DOS attack. 1bit errors will be corrected by ECC, and as soon as a non-correctable 2bit error is detected the system will halt (assuming SECDED ECC)."