Worst time for faulty memory. Hope someone had a stick lying around so they don’t have to pay outrageuous prices.
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probable_possum@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Faulty memory modules are rare. At least in my life.
bonenode@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
more common when dealing with servers. they just have to work harder
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
dan@upvote.au 3 weeks ago
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.
tempest@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It isn’t magic but RAM doesn’t tend to just stop working. You’ll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it’s replacement time.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
nah for sure, but i’d give a bet ruud was running on consumer hardware which has far less fault tolerance built in
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
At least anecdotally I find them to be the third most common thing to fail after storage drives and fans. Though yeah still super rare.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Power supplies and batteries, if we’re including laptops.
sobchak@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Never had one fail. Bought a faulty one once. Took me months to figure out why I was having data corruption issues. Thought it was one of the old HDDs I was using in a ZRAID array, so I would swap one out and try again until I’d eventually get a corruption error again. Finally found the issue after about 10 minutes of running a memory test of a bootable USB.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Am I the only one using memtest after every time I handle RAM?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
happened to my laptop q couple of years ago and my stationary just this summer :|
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I had BOTH of my memory modules die simultaneously in my first beefy computer I built. I was very lucky that OCZ had a lifetime warranty—they didn’t even ask for the memtest results, they just sent me two new sticks.
Then both of my (SLI) video cards died… those too were in warranty, but I began to wonder if my computer was cursed.
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Bad psu checks out
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yknow that’s what I thought! But after replacing memory and GPU, everything worked great for a year or two until I sold it! I did bring it into my work (I used to work computer repair) and used the shop’s PSU tester which passed it…. I think it was just a fluke! I do know the cards I bought (2 x 7900GT) had a bit of a notoriety for failing, but I do not think the RAM had the same issue.