When running a server, especially one with mission-critical applications, it’s common practice to use error-correcting code (ECC) memory. As the name suggests, it uses an error-correcting algorithm to ...

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Today, one of the Dell T5500 workstations I purchased arrived in the mail. I installed some non-ECC memory (as the former web page and the service manual specify that both ECC and non-ECC are ...

Besides the bright RGB lights that they're often adorned with, RAM sticks aren't flashy. They're there to perform one essential task, and that's it. On consumer PCs, they're relied on to store ...

Hey C&MT, it's been a while for me. I'm putting together a passively-cooled Qotom system (Atom C3758R) to become a new OPNsense router... More accurately, it will probably run Proxmox, with the router ...

Hardware The RAM crisis is just getting started: Micron makes the 'difficult decision' to abandon the consumer memory business to focus on supplying AI data centers Windows The father of the Linux ...

Recently, a workstation PC was reviewed on a well-known PC hardware site that included a Quadro video card, but no ECC memory. In the comment section of that review, a heated discussion occurred with ...

Error Correcting Code (ECC) technology, such as Low-Density Parity Check codes, has been around longer than most of you reading this have been alive. The reason is ...