What are cosmic ray soft errors in relation to non-ECC /SSD RAM?
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Really fast particles that you can’t see are whizzing through all of space. Sometimes they hit the sky causing a shower of other particles. Sometimes those particles hit your computer. Sometimes they hit the silicon in your computer chips. Most of these are neutrons. If they have the right energy, an atom in your computer chip can capture a neutron, changing it. This could potentially affect the contents of memory in the chip.
ECC memory can minimise the effects of this.
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