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 ...

As a perk to my job I get free colo in our datacenter (includes 2U of rack space, a /29, free UPS and free power). I'm finally looking to make use of this perk. I recently picked up a 1U server ...

(Error-Correcting Code memory) A memory system that tests for and corrects errors automatically, very often without the operating system being aware of it, let alone the user. As data are written into ...

Memory chips that do not have a ninth bit used for parity checking. The term also implies that the memory does not use error-correcting code (ECC). See ECC memory and parity checking. THIS DEFINITION ...

Intel stripped ECC RAM support off its consumer products over a decade ago, and Linus Torvalds is still unhappy about it. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...