Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it’s down. xD

Edit: damn, they’re already back up this quick

Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      16 hours ago

      It’s still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It’s also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.

      The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.

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        Some servers have ECC. If you get a cheap one (like a Hetzner auction server), it’s less likely to have ECC. ECC protects against bitflips, but it won’t help if the RAM is starting to die. ECC isn’t magic - it just has an extra 8 bits of parity data per 64 bits of data. It still uses the same type of RAM chips.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        nah for sure, but i’d give a bet ruud was running on consumer hardware which has far less fault tolerance built in