Data corruption is the damage of info because of various software or hardware problems. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file can be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are much more likely to happen on bigger hard drives where significant volumes of info are stored. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the damaged file will be treated as a regular one and it'll be duplicated on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are not able to detect corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not operational.
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