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The '1 error for every 256MB memory a month' sounds like way tko much to me.

A program I wrote launches every time I start my computer. It allocates some memory and scans it periodically for unexpected changes. After an equivalent of 15.8 256MB/months no anomalies have been found yet.

Would really like to see more authoritative figures for modern consumer hardware.



It did now finally happen, after an equivalent of 18.9 256MB/months.


Google did a pretty comprehensive study on their data center DRAM a decade ago:

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...




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