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Bitflips are surprisingly more common than you think but rare enough to not be a concern.


If you have ECC memory, you can actually monitor this.

I've typically seen ~a dozen bitflips per year per machine when I looked at this on servers, except for the cases of a faulty RAM module.

I am more worried about SSD corruption than RAM bitflips from data I've seen on my systems.




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