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Why would this be needed, if every single Apple device uses flash memory which provides its own guarantees against bitrot?
by dmitrygr 3y ago
Why would this be needed, if every single Apple device uses flash memory which provides its own guarantees against bitrot?
- boxed 3y agoBecause those guarantees aren't guarantees, more like partial mitigation.
- dmitrygr 3y agomodern flash ECC may not always be able to correct but it is able to DETECT almost any number of bits wrong, so that is just as good as ZFS - if the data is banged - you'll know.
- whartung 3y agoIs that a distinction between modern SSD drives and the small spinning drives? The ECC? Is a modern SSD more resistant to corruption than a modern spinning drive? And the drives I’m talking about the external usb drives everyone (me) have dangling off their machines (notably things like Time Machine and such).
- steve1977 3y agoand Apple doesn’t care about people connecting 3rd party hardware to Macs