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> Especially if you're spent days working on a video file And didn't keep a backup. Most serious software will make incremental copies to avoid that problem to
by thomastjeffery 9y ago
> Especially if you're spent days working on a video file
And didn't keep a backup. Most serious software will make incremental copies to avoid that problem too.
Seriously, hardware failures are just as likely.
ECC is useful, but isn't worth it for the price unless you actually can't be fault tolerant in any way.
- rayiner 9y agoBackups and ECC address completely different problems. Backup systems will happily store corrupted files into your backup disks. ZFS-style filesystem level checksums won’t catch many problems either, because they only check to see if what you wrote is the same as what was read back. If the data was corrupted in memory, it’ll happily pass you back corrupted data.