Comment by bitL

I worked at SUN when ZFS was "invented" and the emphasis on a large amount of proper ECC memory was strong, especially in conjunction with Solaris Zones. I can't recall if it was 1GB of RAM per 1TB of storage or something similar due to how it performed deduplication and stored indices in hot memory. And that was also the reason for insisting on ECC, in order to make sure you won't get your stored indices and shared blocks messed up, leading to major uncorrectable errors.