Data corruption is the damage of info due to various software or hardware fails. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer function properly, so an application will not start or shall 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 data getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as problems are more likely to occur on larger in size hard drives where substantial volumes of information are kept. If a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as a good one and will be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers nowadays often cannot locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

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