ZFS doesn't need ECC but it does benefit from it. If your pool was becoming corrupt every six months, look to a shitty drive controller or cabling first. I've

ZFS doesn't need ECC but it does benefit from it. If your pool was becoming corrupt every six months, look to a shitty drive controller or cabling first. I've run ZFS for quite a few years now on laptops and lower-end machines that can't use ECC memory and I've never had corruption, unrecoverable files/pools, etc. https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/ https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-y...