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The answer is that modern consumer memory packages have come a long way from core memory. Standard ECC tech is extremely resilient to bit-rot and can recover in cases where older memory technologies would have failed catastrophically.

And in the case of real memory corruption, i.e. where cosmic radiation overwhelms the ECC controllers ability to correct the bit rot, well .. "reboot and retry" has been a standard for years, and will continue to work as a strategy as long as it is considered by the software architects of the system.




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