3 Nov
2005
3 Nov
'05
4:16 p.m.
Allison wrote:
If you ask me the real horror of parity memory is it
only tells you
disaster
happend just as your about to crash. It offers little to system reliability
and data integrity that real ECC can provide. Like Tim O' said years ago
it's all a plot to sell more ram.
Allison
Parity depends on if you would prefer a crash to silently generating
incorrect results.
ECC tries to hide the errors, but can still cause a crash if too many
bits change.