A company is designing a data center environment where a critical requirement is highly available computing. Which of the following types of memory should an administrator choose to install in the ser

The correct answer is B. ECC. ECC (Error-Correcting Code) memory is designed to detect and automatically correct single-bit memory errors, preventing data corruption and system crashes. In a data center requiring high availability, silent memory errors could cause unexpected downtime or data loss, making ECC

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A company is designing a data center environment where a critical requirement is highly available computing. Which of the following types of memory should an administrator choose to install in the servers?

Options

ADDR5
BECC
CDDR4
DDual-channel

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A
2% (1)
B
91% (41)
C
7% (3)

Explanation

ECC (Error-Correcting Code) memory is designed to detect and automatically correct single-bit memory errors, preventing data corruption and system crashes. In a data center requiring high availability, silent memory errors could cause unexpected downtime or data loss, making ECC essential. DDR5 and DDR4 refer to memory generations (speed and capacity improvements) but do not inherently include error correction unless combined with ECC. Dual-channel is a memory configuration that improves bandwidth by using two memory modules simultaneously but provides no fault tolerance or error correction.

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