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You can be pretty sure that you have some corrupt bits
by szundi 4y ago
You can be pretty sure that you have some corrupt bits
- viraptor 4y agoNo, we really can't be sure. I'm annoyed when people are sure about it without posting their ECC correction rate stats from live systems. I'm continuously writing metrics on a non-ECC system. There are 3 places that the bitflip can affect the data: pre-writing (checksum will be correct), when flushing to the drive (checksum mismatch), calculating the checksum (mismatch again). There may be some silent corruption (in 1 out of 3 cases), but I've been scrubbing the drive every day for ages and there's not a single error. Non-ECC seems to be doing well. Other claims could really use actual numbers.