it always gave me great pause when people (even on HN) decried ECC as unnecessary, often citing Googles first servers as evidence of that.
I operated at considerably smaller scale than Google and saw enough memory errors to curl my toenails- to the point I even bought a laptop with a Xeon processor and "ECC ram" though it was exhorbitantly expensive, hard to find and doesn't have a viable successor.
And, for what it's worth, Google recanted that idea and are operating with ECC now.
I operated at considerably smaller scale than Google and saw enough memory errors to curl my toenails- to the point I even bought a laptop with a Xeon processor and "ECC ram" though it was exhorbitantly expensive, hard to find and doesn't have a viable successor.
And, for what it's worth, Google recanted that idea and are operating with ECC now.