[justAnotherNET]

Meanwhile I can’t believe Apple went to the trouble of an entirely new FS without implementing BTRFS style block-level checksums. The number of data corruption issues this could have prevented by now are too high to count. Not to mention there is a direct monetary incentive for Apple to do so, as it slightly inflates storage requirements at the cost of safety (and apple commonly stratifies their products by storage capacity). It’s 2020, we need ECC RAM and block level checksums for all new platforms going forward.

[pram]

DDR5 has ECC, so at least that is happening soon.

[AnonHP]

I looked up DDR5 on Wikipedia, but it seems like ECC is just an option, which I understand was an option with previous generations too (at a much higher cost). Please elaborate on the ECC part, especially if manufacturers have committed to making only ECC versions.

[pram]

DDR5 standard has on-die ECC, it's not optional.