Re: PC Motherboard Chipsets and Parts Vendors


"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Soundhaspriority" wrote ...
You should take that advice yourself. Microsoft has no vested reason
to promote the use of ECC,

You must have missed the nine other vested reasons I cited.

other than to improve the customer experience.

Or FUD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt

But the hardware industry doesn't want to charge consumers for ECC
protection, because they know it's cheaper to dupe them out of the added
reliability.

They also know that the customers won't pay for solid-gold
keyboards either because it provides no better reliabilty.

[snip]

Here are some numbers for you. This paper was revised 2004, the most up to
date source I could find on the web.
www.tezzaron.com/about/papers/soft_errors_1_1_secure.pdf

The Micron estimate in the table is 2-4 errors per year per 256 mb. In a
computer with 4 gigabytes of ram, this translates to 32-64 errors in memory,
per year, or approximately:

ONE PER WEEK.

Please consult your keychain before you reply.

Regards,
Bob Morein
(310) 237-6511


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