Conclusion from Google: Memory Chips More Unreliable Than Previously Believed
October 9, 2009 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Trends
Over the last two-and-a-half years, search engine giant Google analyzed the performance of the thousands of computers it uses for its own data centers. The surprising trend? Based on real-world data, Google concluded that the error rates of memory chips are higher than previously believed. Much much higher:
How many errors? On average, about one in three Google servers experienced a correctable memory error each year and one in a hundred an uncorrectable error, an event that typically causes a crash.
Older research showed that, for every 1 billion hours, a memory chip would fail on average around 200 to 5,000 times. …read more
RAM Upgrade FAIL
September 22, 2008 by Rico Mossesgeld
Filed under Laptops, Lifestyle
Hey kids, can you guess what’s wrong with this picture?
That’s right! Trying to upgrade a laptop’s SODIMM memory with larger DIMM chips equals FAIL.
How do you avoid this mistake? Make sure to get the RAM—specs-, speed-, and size-wise—that fits your computer. If you’re not entirely sure what to do, ask a techie-friend or Google for advice.
