> I've always been curious about this too. Is there a difference? Aside
> from the fact that if a part of the memmory is damaged you don't loose
> the whole thing, you only loose a 128MB stick.
>
Not really, but when you have two memories, the chance of having either of
the memory is damage is high.

Let's compare this to coins... head/tail, head is favored while tail is
undesired.

For single stick, it's like one coin:
50% possibility for defective...

For two stick, it's like having two coins:
  head head
  tail tail
  head tail
  tail head
25% possibility that both are working, 25% possibility that both are
defective and 50% possibility that either one of them is defective.

Summing them up, you have 75% possibility of getting unfavored result, thus
giving you headache figuring out where the problem is.

ACTUAL figure differ on memory stick since the actual probability is not
50%, I only use 50% for analogy in coins...

Regards/
Jerome


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