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As drives become huge, the risk of data corruption becomes an ever increasing concern. Corruption can be subtle— “bit rot”, bit flips during file transfers, etc, and these can accrete over time.
from Mac Performance Guide http://macperformanceguide.com http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2012/20120218_1-ZFS-for-OSX.html