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Comment by GeekyBear

2 days ago

When Apple announced the creation of APFS they mentioned that their intent was to handle data integrity at the hardware level.

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throw0101c  2 days ago

See:

> Apple File System uses checksums to ensure data integrity for metadata but not for the actual user data, relying instead on error-correcting code (ECC) mechanisms in the storage hardware.[18]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System#Data_integri...

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