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Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by ruleabidinguser on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:04PM (#14207467)
What are you doing where you're actually checking checksums periodically and detcting when things get worse? That seems like a lot of work to set up.
Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by boomboomsubban on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:17PM (#14207558)
They are using ZFS, scrubbing is one command.
Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by lomnakkus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:29PM (#14207623)
zpool scrub

(This may be a myth: It's not something you should actually do that often because actually reading the media may dregrade it.)

Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by kscz on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:57PM (#14208354)
or for btrfs users out there:

btrfs scrub start /mnt/volume_name

Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by derefr on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:57PM (#14207782)
Either way, it'd be fine on SSDs, then?
Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by lomnakkus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:54PM (#14208065)
Hm? As long as the error correction technology on your chosen SSD of choice stands up, I guess... yes? What, exactly, are you asking?
Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by derefr on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:58PM (#14208091)
My thought was "reading SSDs doesn't degrade them, so there's no disadvantage to constant scrubbing." Unless I've misunderstood what you mean by "reading."
Re:Should I buy ECC memory? (2015) by lomnakkus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:05PM (#14208130)
Ah, right, fair point. AFAIUI SSD storage does degrade a tiny(!) amount when reading, but magnetic storage degrades quite a bit more.

(That's where that came from, draw your own conlusions :).)