You might have been leaving fire pits to burn out for 20 years when you go to bed, but it only takes 1 errant spark for the "overkill" of wetting the ashes isn'

You might have been leaving fire pits to burn out for 20 years when you go to bed, but it only takes 1 errant spark for the "overkill" of wetting the ashes isn't overkill. There are various trade offs you can make depending on your filesystem, OS tooling and hardware which can mitigate risks in different ways. However non-ECC invites a lot of risk. How often are you checksumming your backups to validate integrity? It seeks unlikely you've had 0 memory corruption over 20 years, more likely you didn't notice it or your run a filesystem with tooling that handles it.