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"Only servers need ECC" is a big time meme that's been reinforced on computer forums for many years. It's near impossible to snap people out of it.



Servers accumulate bitflips over long periods of time because they run 24/7. If you reboot your computer every few days to clear the memory then it's not going to be a significant problem.


Running 24/7 is not that relevant. It's the number of writes/refreshes on a given bit of information that matters. A server running 24/7 and a laptop, both reading/converting/writing image files have the same chance to corrupt each single image. The server has more chances to corrupt its cached executables though, since they have longer lifetime.


Hehe. Sounds a great approach to computing. Let's keep doing that!




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