Sujet : Re: DRAM accommodations
De : blockedofcourse (at) *nospam* foo.invalid (Don Y)
Groupes : sci.electronics.designDate : 17. Sep 2024, 03:31:35
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On 9/16/2024 7:05 PM, Don Y wrote:
OTOH, if the memory just sits there with the expectation that it
will retain its intended contents without a chance to be corrected
(by the ECC hardware), then bit-rot can continue increasing the
possibility of a second bit failing while the first is still failed.
This is the fallacy of (disk) RAID; unless you do patrol reads
and actively scrub the media, you won't know about bit-rot
until it has had a chance to progress to a point where you
are vulnerable to it.
[That's why you scrub DRAM!]
DRAM accommodations
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