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Comment by buildbot

5 months ago

If you care about your data, you want ECC. If a bitflip happens in memory, zfs will for example, not catch the error and happily write out the corrupted file.

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wslh  5 months ago

What is the probability of this happening on a home (not a datacenter) under normal conditions of temperature, radiation, etc?

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