Scary scenarios regarding "faulty ram destroys volume" can be found in various places, e.g., https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-why-yo

Scary scenarios regarding "faulty ram destroys volume" can be found in various places, e.g., https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-why-you-should-use-ecc-ram/ https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-... However, for a refutation of this scenario see XorNot's comment (and perhaps the surrounding discussion) at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8294434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8294434