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  1. Salvaging Defective DRAM

    Hardware · Hardware · · posted by michael · from the every-part-except-the-squeal dept. · 211 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "Ever wonder what happens to DRAM that fails quality assurance testing during manufacturing? Turns out a lot of it ends up as 'downgrade' memory and ends up in OEM memory modules. Last resort: use it in an answering machine, where the sampled audio can be very tolerant of bit errors."