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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by thomastjeffery on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:30PM (#16092512)
> Especially if you're spent days working on a video file

And didn't keep a backup. Most serious software will make incremental copies to avoid that problem too.

Seriously, hardware failures are just as likely.

ECC is useful, but isn't worth it for the price unless you actually can't be fault tolerant in any way.

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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by rayiner on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:17PM (#16092780)
Backups and ECC address completely different problems. Backup systems will happily store corrupted files into your backup disks. ZFS-style filesystem level checksums won’t catch many problems either, because they only check to see if what you wrote is the same as what was read back. If the data was corrupted in memory, it’ll happily pass you back corrupted data.
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