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- You wrote:
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- >>>>Do I buy parity or non parity ram?
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- >As a former hardware designer for fault tolerant systems, I would say
- >absolutely do NOT waste your money on parity RAM unless your system
- >requires it. You are a 1000x more likely to encounter a system error
- >from board noise, marginal timing, peripheral errors/failures, supply
- >spikes, or any number of other sources before you will ever see a
- >memory error. The only memory error common enough to be of concern is
- >total chip failure (and of course parity won't help you there :-)
- >
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- Hello Mark,
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- In my case and many ALPHA users Parity ram is a must or can ALPHA's and
- other RISC based machine use Non-Parity ram?
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- Thanks!
- Will Mendez
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