Read the paper(s) below. Absolutely frightening, we all basically swimming in quicksand. ECC should be mandatory! Not using it is like huffing leaded gas.

Silent Data Corruptions at Scale https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11245

Harish Dixit has two other papers available https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Dixit%2C...

Revisiting Memory Errors in Large-Scale Production Data Centers: Analysis and Modeling of New Trends from the Field https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/memory-errors-at-faceb...

Justin Meza has a similar body of research. https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Justin-Meza/144606145