Re:HFS+ Bit Rot
by pling on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @01:32AM
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Well I've been using NTFS exclusively since 1996 (NT4) and accumulated 870Gb of data.
I've never had a single byte of corruption. Not one, not ever. The data is checksummed about once a month.
26 is a very high number for a deterministic system compared to zero.
My recentish MBP purchase (2011) resulted in a single corrupt file copying 1/3 of that volume onto the machine over the LAN. this was 10.7 at the time. That scared me a little.
The Linux kit I operate has had no discernable data corruption either in the last 12 years.
I know this is an anecdote but over time that's a huge cumulative error.
I've never had a single byte of corruption. Not one, not ever. The data is checksummed about once a month.
26 is a very high number for a deterministic system compared to zero.
My recentish MBP purchase (2011) resulted in a single corrupt file copying 1/3 of that volume onto the machine over the LAN. this was 10.7 at the time. That scared me a little.
The Linux kit I operate has had no discernable data corruption either in the last 12 years.
I know this is an anecdote but over time that's a huge cumulative error.