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Is it? Or is that the old wives tale? Many very non-toy applications started on consumer hardware (including Google, and they turned out alright).

http://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/



You'll note that Google grew ECC as soon as they started billing people for real money. This is no coincidence.




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