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> BTW, the box you put these drives into must have ECC RAM. Without it, expect corruption. That's a rather strong statement to make.
by pyre 12y ago
> BTW, the box you put these drives into must have ECC RAM. Without it, expect corruption.
That's a rather strong statement to make.
- IgorPartola 12y agohttp://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/dram-error-rates-nightmare-on-dimm-street/638 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/dram-error-rates-nightmare...
- laymil 12y agoIt's a rather fair statement to make. The rates of errors in memory are significant[1], and ZFS does nothing to ensure that in memory data structures are uncorrupted; it was designed to be used with ECC RAM[2]. [1]http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf [2]http://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html http://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html