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[–] skidmark-steve 0 points 16 points (+16|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Selling people a product and then retroactively pulling features from it, in order to push existing users to buy an upgrade to continue to enjoy the functionality that they initially got out-of-the-box should be illegal. Actually, I'm pretty sure that it is. Not that something being illegal has ever stopped a large company before.

People like to claim that you're not "buying" Windows, so this somehow makes all of this shady conduct okay, but that's exactly what the buttons on Newegg ("Buy now"), not to mention the text on the sales receipt say.

I'll stick to using Btrfs on Linux for a file system with guaranteed data integrity. It is stable, as long as you don't use Raid 5/6 modes. Or if you are feeling adventurous, you can always give ZFS a try. I've been tempted to do this, its not hard at all; just install the packages and go. But I'm scared off by the alleged higher required system specifications to obtain good performance.

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[–] durchfall 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'd say that btrfs is the more adventurous option from a data integrity standpoint, at least compared to zfs.

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[–] killer7 ago 

Isn't this almost similar to dumping?

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[–] Drunkenmoba ago 

It is bait and switch and has many fun legal applications.