Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces

Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by thomastjeffery on Sunday January 07, 2018 @02:53PM (#16092319)

You make it sound like filesystems are so vulnerable. They aren't.

The chances of memory failure ruining data are extremely slim; lower than for hardware failure. If you care about your data, back it up.

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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by burntwater on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:01PM (#16092681)

Backups don't do anything if the original material contains the flipped bits.

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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by cjsuk on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:08AM (#16095349)

I ran a lab notebook in word for a number of years and the document got fried by a filesystem error. The backup was toasted as well. This was corruption which broke the stage machine or parser in word which acted as a damage amplification.

As for the source of the error, we can only speculate but the possibility of a flipped bit is higher than you think.

Try running memtest86 on a PC without ECC for a week. You will be surprised at the results. I’ve seen perhaps 3 or 4 failures of this in new hardware. DRAM is not perfect.

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