Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the losing of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and as a consequence, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer function as it should as its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer present an accurate image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, and so on. When such an issue occurs and it isn't identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and if this happens on a disk drive that is a part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all of the other drives and the harm will be permanent. Numerous widespread file systems either don't have real-time checks or do not have good ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common matter on web hosting servers where large volumes of data are kept.

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