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Re:Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited P... by pyre on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @03:52PM (#8558978)
> BTW, the box you put these drives into must have ECC RAM. Without it, expect corruption.

That's a rather strong statement to make.

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Re:Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited P... by laymil on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:19PM (#8559097)
It's a rather fair statement to make. The rates of errors in memory are significant[1], and ZFS does nothing to ensure that in memory data structures are uncorrupted; it was designed to be used with ECC RAM[2].

[1]http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf [2]http://louwrentius.com/please-use-zfs-with-ecc-memory.html

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Re:Amazon Prime Members’ Newest Benefit Is Free, Unlimited P... by IgorPartola on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @04:16PM (#8559083)
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/dram-error-rates-nightmare...
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