On Fri, 25 May 2007, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> Wikipedia suggests a rule of thumb of one error per month per gigabyte,
> though suggests error rates vary widely. They reference a paper that
> should provide you with more background.
The paper I would recommend is
http://www.tezzaron.com/about/papers/soft_errors_1_1_secure.pdf
which is a summary of many other people's papers, and quite informative.
I know I had no idea before reading it how much error rates go up with
increasing altitute.
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