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I was referring to bit flips and data corruption. Mirrored zfs can correct these, the rest of the filesystems can't. Flash drives are terrible mediums for back

by pmlnr 7y ago

I was referring to bit flips and data corruption. Mirrored zfs can correct these, the rest of the filesystems can't. Flash drives are terrible mediums for backups unless you power them every month. When they loae charge they lose bits permanently.

mrguyorama 7y ago
Do flash drives every "refresh" unmodified storage? I'm not super familiar with the behavior of cheap flash storage controllers