Data corruption is the damage of data because of various software or hardware problems. When a file is damaged, it will no longer function correctly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file will be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as failures are more likely to happen on larger hard disks where significant volumes of info are located. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is very likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it'll be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often cannot find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

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