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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by weitzj on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:29AM (#13678737)
There is nothing special about using ZFS with/without ECC.

You are getting the same benefits using any filesystem while running with ECC.

Also the "myth" that wrong checksum calculations due to a bitflip will degrade a ZFS filesystem even faster is not valid.

There are some articles/newsgroups around explaining this in much more detail.

So: Using ZFS on non ECC is not inherently unsafer than other filesystems on non ECC.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by iso-8859-1 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @05:22AM (#13679049)
And here is Matt Ahrens, a ZFS co-founder saying the same ("there's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem"):

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1235679&p=...

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