You need the ECC RAM for your filesystem with integrity only then can you be confident you aren't going to be familiar with a concept like this happening 9 or 10 times.

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flaunf221 2 days ago | parent [-]

You can read online how often correctable errors happen to people with ECC and reporting.

Single digit - sometimes none - errors per year in systems with consumer amount of RAM.

	▲	etbe 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Systems with "consumer amounts of RAM" are often run with what you might call "consumer amounts of sysadmin knowledge" and not notice the errors. One time I took a working workstation from my home to my parents' home to give them. When I booted it up it gave a lot of strange kernel errors which I googled and discovered were reports of ECC correction. I reseated all DIMMs and it was fine. If that gave errors a few times a year instead of thousands of times on the first boot I wouldn't have noticed.
	▲	inigyou 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sometimes I get a few per day. I only know that because my Linux kernel configuration happens to have whatever settings enabled to get them reported in dmesg.