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dan@upvote.au 1 day agoSome 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 16 hours 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.