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

  • dan@upvote.au
    5·
    2 days 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
      1·
      1 day 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.