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That same wiki article references Google's experienced numbers, with a high end of "about 5 single bit errors in 8 Gigabytes of RAM per hour"


Google at the time was buying memory chips that had failed manufacturer QA, stuffing them on to DIMMs themselves, and then running whatever seemed to pass.




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