ECC RAM is a convenience in the same way having checksums of data, or using a redundant form of RAID when you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy: it warns you if the RAM is going bad (i.e. bit flips being ...

I'm putting together a FreeNAS system and trying to reuse components I already have. I've read about using ECC ram with some Core i3 processors and some AMD processors. The system I would most like to ...

About four years ago, the Rowhammer vulnerability in DRAM memory chips emerged. It came about by "hammering" -- many reads or write access -- a particular memory location causing a bit to change state ...

(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 modules with error-correcting code (ECC) protection are vulnerable to Rowhammer, an attack that can help corrupt data the computer stores in its volatile memory chips. Since its discovery in ...

Academics from the Vrije University in Amsterdam, Holland, have published a research paper today describing a new variation of the Rowhammer attack. For readers unfamiliar with the term, Rowhammer is ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, has a history of posting angry rants on various topics. Several of them have been directed at Intel, like when he ripped the company a new one after what he felt ...

Corsair has unveiled its new line of WS DDR5 RDIMM memory kits, aimed to be used with the latest 4th gen Intel Xeon and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors. Coming in capacities of up to ...

Before Ryzen, in order to get workstation class performance more than 8 CPU threads, one would have to buy into Intel’s expensive HEDT platform. That, however, still wouldn’t get you all the ...

According to Odinn, a fully customizable core specification allows the Cube to scale up to 56 AMD EPYC 9845 processors, ...