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I have a large media collection ranging on the order of 10TB collected over many years. One day I started noticing that videos i havent watched in a while would
by blackflame7000 9y ago
I have a large media collection ranging on the order of 10TB collected over many years. One day I started noticing that videos i havent watched in a while would occasionally have these weird green artifacts during playback that didnt exist when I first stored them.
My research lead me to discover what bit-rot was and how most filesystems dont actually ensure that what was read from disk is precisely what was written to it.
Enter ZFS, an incredible filesystem that makes ensuring data integrity a breeze. I run 12x2TB disks in a raidz2 running bi-monthly scrubs and not a single corrupted byte since