Data corruption is the damage of information because of various hardware or software problems. After a file gets damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as fails are much more likely to occur on larger hard disks where considerable volumes of info are kept. If a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a good one and will be copied on all the drives, making the damage permanent. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are unable to discover corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't functioning.

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