On Jan 9, 2013 10:41 PM, "Holger Hoffstaette" <
holger.hoffstaette@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> > On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 +0000 (UTC)
> >
> >> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently for a
long
> >> time.
> >
> > And I'm saying I've never seen that happen.
>
> Well, that's the point.
>
> http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/
>
> Things are much worse than you think.
>
> -h
>

But that link also shows a bright light: RAID arrays are in general more
reliable, with BER less than one-third their spec.

Rgds,
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