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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by leonroy on Sunday January 07, 2018 @06:59PM (#16093585)
From what I understand (very roughly) with ZFS or BTRFS at least it takes one flipped bit in the particular block of memory which has just been successfully checksummed and 'approved' by the filesystem as valid for a write operation. Those are quite a few hoops to jump through so let's not head towards melodrama just yet.
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Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces by cjsuk on Monday January 08, 2018 @03:09AM (#16095352)
That’s fine but most of us are running on NTFS, HFS+ or ext4 where it matters.

And then there’s the same problem with MLC SSDs which are just arrays of capacitors encoding that state as different charge potentials. As a former EE, capacitors leak regardless of implementation.

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