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Please make ECC mandatory.


It's never going to happen because Dell counts every penny.


JEDEC could only standardize ECC modules.

Microsoft, Intel or AMD can, anytime, require ECC for their certification/logo programs.

Intel and AMD could even make their new chips only boot with ECC.

And FCC could make ECC a requirement for certification.

All these parties (and more) are enabling non-ECC memory, to the detriment of mankind.


I prefer my computations have unreported errors at the whim of explosions billions of light years away. Makes me feel connected to the universe.




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