In this follow up post on the original Hold on to Your Hardware write-up we’re going to have a look at how to deal with faulty RAM on Linux, which is one of the major causes for system instability, crashes and data corruption on consumer hardware.
In this follow up post on the original Hold on to Your Hardware write-up we’re going to have a look at how to deal with faulty RAM on Linux, which is one of the major causes for system instability, crashes and data corruption on consumer hardware.
I’ve used this exact thing in the past with stellar results, a Yoga (forgot model) with soldered RAM that couldn’t even boot continued to be useful for many more years.
as to reliability, if you already tolerate non-ECC RAM in your workstation, you’re fine; it’s astounding how present bit flips are in everyday use, even from supposedly non-defective hardware, so automated backups of the multi-version kind should be the first thing you set up on your workstation.