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TestTheHardware

Please help me fill in techniques for testing electronic hardware.

In particular,

functional tests

I spend extra money to get ECC memory. How can I tell whether or not it’s actually working? How can I tell if the entire motherboard / RAM / BIOS settings / chipset / operating system are all set to properly detect and correct errors ?

reliability tests

reliability testing

I hear there is controversy over whether RAID5 or RAID10 is better. So why can’t we simply measure it?