In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Robert Redelmeier
wrote:

If ECC was that big a reliability win, it would not be a
nebulous claim.

Actually, it IS.
That's why almost every SERVER gets ECC memory.
What ECC doesn't have, is anybody SELLING the advantage.
For most common PC users (and retailers) nobody gives a damn; and those
few people who *do* know the advantage, usually don't speak to the
customers and TELL them.

How is anybody supposed to know the difference, if they'r not educated?
Besides, all most lusers see on the sticker is the hard-drive size, the
monitor-size, the CPU speed, and the memory-size. Since NONE of the
packaged products comes default-with ECC, how are they going to know
it's even an option?

Nobody mentions it to them. Nobody *suggests* it as an option. Nobody
sees it in any on-shelf PC. Only those who *know* about it would even
ask! How many are that? Less than 1%?

If it ain't being sold, *of course* it ain't going to sell!

Now most professionals, people who build server-boxes, probably wouldn't
be caught dead putting non-ECC memory into a system. But THEY know what
it is and is-for, what it does, and how it improves reliability.

However geeks like that don't talk to home-PC customers.
I'll bet most put ECC memory in their own systems at home though.
Just like they buy decent power-supplies and motherboards; not the crap
that Dell sells.

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