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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCIX calm hey guys i'm here at the transcend booth and while they weren't sure exactly of what new announcements they might have for computex i didn't notice they had server memory modules and while we're just over at plextor and i talked about how we use their job in our server i thought i would cover ECC memory module so ECC memory modules stands for error correcting code function support or ECC kind of drop off the function support there it's just ECC basically what that does is as data runs through your ram it could have errors in it and usually the arrows aren't big enough for your computer to really care if you're just doing like very basic applications but on a server they have to really really make sure that everything is very proper maybe one flipped a bit on your computer you will never notice but in a server you actually might that could be a really big deal so they have error correcting modules that will double check everything and make sure it's all proper we are running that in our server currently we will we were not before and we did actually have some problems with our database before we were running ECC memory so if you've been looking at memory in the past may or may be wondering what that little nomenclature was ECC stands were error correcting error correcting code I forgot what that last word was sorry about that thanks for watching our transcend content if you want to see all of our computex content make sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips