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I get what you're saying, but nobody is going to run three trials of memtest86 on their machine and chalk the data corruption up to cosmic radiation. When memory dies are broken, they're broken. It's pretty simple to ascertain that, if you suspect your memory has gone bad.



When the memory becomes so bad that it is obvious, you might have already lost parts of the content of various files, which may be unrecoverable.


Not sure I'd say easy. I've seen many cases where the errors take more than 12 hours to show with memtest86.




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