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snvzz on March 27, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Battle testing ZFS, Btrfs and mdadm+dm-integrity (...

>Almost all small form factor NAS I am aware of which are affordable are non-ECC.

>Almost all homebrew kits ship boards which are non-ECC.

>You have to explicitly configure ECC as an option, eg when ordering a NUC.

Wow. Placing such products in the market without any prominent warnings (or worse, making promises of reliability) should be considered criminal negligence.

ggm on March 27, 2024 [–]

Well. Need to qualify that. They may have things like on-die ecc but they aren't exposing state. So, it's down to trust.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=358921 for instance

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