[Novalug] ECC RAM failure data

JG unician at speakeasy.net
Thu Feb 26 10:01:27 EST 2009


john_re wrote:
   > "Tests[ecc]give widely varying error rates, but about
   > 10-12upset/bit-hr is typical, ...

Just to clarify, the original HTML shows that that numeric value is
"ten to the minus-twelfth upsets", not the range "ten to twelve upsets".

   > ... roughly one bit error, per month, per gigabyte of memory.

The Wikipedia text is quoted accurately, but that rate seems to be
more like one bit error, per *week*, per gigabyte.



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