[magicalhippo]

> if you dig deep enough into the problem, often the hardware is found to be at fault

Well with ZFS I've had hardware break and still not experienced any data loss. I've had cables getting lose multiple times, I've had several disks dying[1], I've had unstable SATA controllers (hello JMicron) and plenty of unexpected power losses and hard resets.

Yet ZFS has sailed through it all with my data intact. Sure ZFS ain't bulletproof. It can get messed up. But for the most part it takes a lot of beating without a dent.

[1]: As a matter of fact, I just finished resilvering a RAID-Z1 pool in my NAS after a WD Red 3TB died after almost 7 years of 24/7 operation (barring a few accidental power outages).