Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it's down. xD
Edit: damn, they're already back up this quick
Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q
Faulty memory modules are rare. At least in my life.
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I had BOTH of my memory modules die simultaneously in my first beefy computer I built. I was very lucky that OCZ had a lifetime warranty—they didn’t even ask for the memtest results, they just sent me two new sticks.
Then both of my (SLI) video cards died… those too were in warranty, but I began to wonder if my computer was cursed.
Bad psu checks out
Yknow that’s what I thought! But after replacing memory and GPU, everything worked great for a year or two until I sold it! I did bring it into my work (I used to work computer repair) and used the shop’s PSU tester which passed it…. I think it was just a fluke! I do know the cards I bought (2 x 7900GT) had a bit of a notoriety for failing, but I do not think the RAM had the same issue.
If it wasn’t the PSU or motherboard, then it’s possible they were both just from a bad batch
The friend I sold it to used the PSU and mobo for another couple years before upgrading, so I think you’re right! Just bad luck on my part hahaha. Thank goodness for good RMA policies!
Dirty electricity is also a possibility
Brownouts, surges, lots of electrical stuff can absolutely crap on newer electronics
I keep my PCs behind a whole home surge protector, on an isobar, and through a sinewave UPS
Worst time for faulty memory. Hope someone had a stick lying around so they don't have to pay outrageuous prices.
more common when dealing with servers. they just have to work harder
It's still not that common to have one die. Servers have ECC memory which can get you by longer even as a DIMM starts to die. It's also rarely run at speeds consumer RAM is run at.
The thing with server memory is when you get to point where you have hundreds of servers and each one has 12 to 24 DIMMs the chance you have a bad one somewhere increases.
Some servers have ECC. If you get a cheap one (like a Hetzner auction server), it's less likely to have ECC. ECC protects against bitflips, but it won't help if the RAM is starting to die. ECC isn't magic - it just has an extra 8 bits of parity data per 64 bits of data. It still uses the same type of RAM chips.
It isn't magic but RAM doesn't tend to just stop working. You'll start getting reported error correction events on a bad dim before it might fail which usually means it's replacement time.
nah for sure, but i'd give a bet ruud was running on consumer hardware which has far less fault tolerance built in
At least anecdotally I find them to be the third most common thing to fail after storage drives and fans. Though yeah still super rare.
Power supplies and batteries, if we’re including laptops.
Never had one fail. Bought a faulty one once. Took me months to figure out why I was having data corruption issues. Thought it was one of the old HDDs I was using in a ZRAID array, so I would swap one out and try again until I'd eventually get a corruption error again. Finally found the issue after about 10 minutes of running a memory test of a bootable USB.
Am I the only one using memtest after every time I handle RAM?
That's probably a good thing to do, yeah. 👍 Thing with me is, I probably handle my RAM just as often as they fail, which would be never also.
happened to my laptop q couple of years ago and my stationary just this summer :|
They'll probably have to claim to be working on AI to get someone to sell them new ram.
more like download more ram
Back in my day you could get an app that doubled your RAM. No memory modules required.
Ramdisk?
QEMM?
You could mount a cloud storage device as a pagefile, which would be a convoluted way to "download more RAM"!
Yes, there are some significant technical hurdles to jump through and it'd be impossibly slow, but it can be done!
do i have to use a physical device, and if NOT ram sticks or cloud storage devices, what should i use?
On Windows, download the google drive program and set it to a drive letter. Then once setup, create a pagefile on the drive. It's memory as fast as your internet connection.
how much memory would that add? i have at least 32GB of ram on my pc. seriously!
I don't really know if it works or does something.
I wouldn't count on it beyond the novelty.
It definitely can be done for real, but it will be soooooo slow if the os decides to use that memory.
.world has on-"prem" servers? Noice
So does .CA
It's one of the advantages of the being a lot of sys admins and Linux users in this community.
You can run Lemmy pretty comfortably on used servers.
I'm running mine on a ~$33/year VPS at GreenCloudVPS. It's a small instance (just me) but it federates with all the major instances which means it still does a bunch of work (since it has to handle incoming posts and comments from federated servers). It's a decently powerful VPS with an AMD EPYC Milan CPU, 10GB RAM, and 100GB NVMe storage.
For a medium-sized instance, I imagine you could get pretty far with a single <$100/month dedicated server from Hetzner or a similar provider.
That seems quite cheap, was it a discount? I can't find a 33$ yearly plan on their website
Yeah, a Black Friday sale.
They do have some deals always available, but the specs aren't as good as the Black Friday ones: https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale
RackNerd also have some deals that are always available on their site. .
Oh, that's still very cool, thanks!
Maybe it changed, but IIRC they are using Hetzner
I run lemmy.world on a VPS at Hetzner.
https://lemmy.world/comment/65982
Their infrastructure expenses seem to also suggest VPS
https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld/transactions?kind=EXPENSE
I am under the impression it's dedicated hardware not a VPS, but it's leased from Hetzner they don't maintain the hardware themselves.
Ah, could be!
Oh shit, awful timing, what with the pricing recently :(
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I switched from lemmy.world to fedia.io because I like mbin's interface a little better than lemmy: The fediverse is pretty great!
If you want to try alternate UIs, you might be interested in trying Photon and Alexandrite.
I've tried a few variants out and they all have their own benefits and drawbacks, but I kinda settled on Mbin with Interstellar on mobile (though the website works fine in Firefox mobile too).
You are now banned from Lemmy.world
oh no. what are all the pro-genocide astroturf bots gonna do now?!
coming to other lemmy instances. they tried it the "You sound like a 1939s nazi"(paraphrase) when referring to russian backed propaganda as a reason for a certain candidates loss" just the other day, instantly blocked that account.
They don't do well on the better moderated instances, thankfully.