And silent memory corruption can make its way to the filesystem, or applications' internal saved data structures (such as the contents of a VM's registry database).
Since we don't hear about Mac mini server users screaming about how their servers are constantly crashing, the severity and frequency of memory corruption events may not be anywhere near what you suggest.
ECC is an absolute MUST. Case closed- unless you like corrupt encryption keys that blow away an entire volume.
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