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> The push for crypto without ecc ram is a nonstop horror show That's a bit hyperbolic. First, ECC doesn't protect the full data chain, you can have a bitflip in a hardware flip flop (or latch open a gate that drains a line, etc...) before the value reaches the memory. Logic is known to glitch too. Second: ECC is mostly designed to protect long term storage in DRAM. Recognize that a cert like this is a very short-ter…
Using ECC is a no-brainer. Even the Raspberry Pi 4 has ECC RAM. It’s not particularly expensive and only a artificial limitation Intel has introduced for consumer products.
The Pi 4 uses DRAM with on-die ECC, which AFAIK does not provide any means of reporting errors (corrected or uncorrected) to the SoC's memory controller. It is effectively a cost-saving measure to improve DRAM yields. As such, it does little to guarantee that there are no memory errors.