IIRC Intel "consummer" parts are qualified for 3 (or 5 ?) years of usage at a 30% duty cycle (and you might not find that figure publicly, but honestly you should, and intel should be mandatted to publish it). Now that is likely not exactly what RAM vendors are doing, but likely to give a rough idea of what you should expect from consummer electronics. I'm not even sure all small Xeon have better specs, but for sur you can source some models in volume for a quite low extra cost, qualified for a higher duty cycle and more years of usage.

> qualified for a higher duty cycle and more years of usage.

Which is what? Double the 30% duty cycle? Would it be so beyond the realm of belief that Linus' box has a 80%-90% duty cycle? I'm not exactly sure where your position falls, that the RAM was defective, or that it lasted longer than expected given its increased use.

Expected by who? Those who have access to private info? As far as I'm concerned, I don't see why I should expect anything less than 100% usage if a vendor does not warn me otherwise, and countries exists where mandatory warantee is 2 years.

And that's just about the law. Don't get me started on resource consumption and on my perfectly fine 10 years old computers I'll be forced to stop using soon because of litteral planned obsolecence (of MS, that's another story but a major actor of the computer industry too, and that will yield even more environmental destruction)

>>> IIRC Intel "consummer" parts are qualified for 3 (or 5 ?) years of usage at a 30% duty cycle

Expected by you.