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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] pineview atom
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:03:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b02de62025167494f86950f5a0313a2a@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df11002181246rba8e3aeu98ab4a26997906db@mail.gmail.com>

> in many cases it's all about location. Where I used to live, 7200 feet
> up, it was a huge issue. Where you live, i am assuming close to sea
> level, and with a small number of machines, the statistics say that
> you're unlikely to see it. But I would not want to take several
> thousand of your machines to Los Alamos and try to make them run ...

exactly.  and coraid storage appliances use ecc throughout the
datapath.

all i'm saying is that 1 error per 3 days per 4 gb at sea level
(the orginal claim) seems exaggerated to me.   i believe my sample
size is big enough to refute that claim to very high confidence.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-18 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-18 16:56 erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 18:26 ` matt
2010-02-18 18:31   ` ron minnich
2010-02-18 18:43     ` Patrick Kelly
2010-02-18 20:04     ` David Leimbach
2010-02-18 18:39   ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 20:46     ` ron minnich
2010-02-18 21:03       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-02-18 21:14     ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-18 22:38       ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 23:08         ` roger peppe
2010-02-18 23:12         ` Adrian Tritschler
2010-02-18 23:27           ` ron minnich
2010-02-19 21:59             ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-20 22:17               ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-21 19:46                 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-03-05 10:01                 ` hugh
2010-03-05 17:32                   ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-18 18:43   ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-08 17:57   ` Albert Skye
2010-03-08 19:06     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-08 19:47     ` Jonas Amoson
2010-03-08 20:11       ` erik quanstrom

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