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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Why one should buy parity memory for reliability? Date: 25 Sep 1996 11:31:16 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <52b1lk$ijl@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <32485B0D.41C6@austin.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27969 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4977 Tushar Patel <tpatel@austin.ibm.com> writes: >There is a big difference in the price between the parity and non >parity memory so I am trying to justify the parity memory purchase. I guess the big thing is that you will get definite failures, as opposed to the machine running funny from time to time. Its always such a pain if something works properly half the time. When your machine crashes with a parity error at location blah, you know your simm is probably at the end of its days. David.