Hi Mark and Maxim! >> Ext4 won't detect bitrot (silent corruption of your drive's data). >> You'll probably wake one day with a fsck that won't be able to recover >> some files, or worst, a completely dead drive. >> >> Your backups would also contain corrupted data (garbage in, garbage >> out!). > > For what it's worth, I wholeheartedly agree with Maxim. Btrfs did you a > great service by calling attention to this problem with your drive, and > it would be a shame to ignore it and switch back to ext4 where your data > may instead be silently corrupted. > > I've been using btrfs for several years now on my x86_64 Guix system, > and it has served me well. Previously, I used ext4, which would > silently leave some of my files empty after crashes. I've never seen > that happen with btrfs. Yeah, makes sense. I have placed an order for WDS100T2B0A. Thanks folks! Regards, RG.