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		GeekyBear 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half th... When Apple announced the creation of APFS they mentioned that their intent was to handle data integrity at the hardware level.

throw0101c 7 months ago [–]

See:

> Apple File System uses checksums to ensure data integrity for metadata but not for the actual user data, relying instead on error-correcting code (ECC) mechanisms in the storage hardware.[18]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System#Data_integri...

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