The aforementioned quote should be: "If you value your data, you should use ECC RAM. Especially so, if you use a checksumming filesystem such as btrfs or zfs."

The aforementioned quote should be: "If you value your data, you should use ECC RAM. Especially so, if you use a checksumming filesystem such as btrfs or zfs." There is no use investing money in offsite backups if the onsite backup is corrupted already from faulty RAM.