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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:34:11
Message-Id: CAA2qdGWmqk5Z42QdtasSNWYRoW-X8FRufisjtiqT8P0UmvTMfw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot by Holger Hoffstaette
1 On Jan 9, 2013 10:41 PM, "Holger Hoffstaette" <
2 holger.hoffstaette@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
5 >
6 > > On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 +0000 (UTC)
8 > >
9 > >> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently for a
10 long
11 > >> time.
12 > >
13 > > And I'm saying I've never seen that happen.
14 >
15 > Well, that's the point.
16 >
17 > http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/
18 >
19 > Things are much worse than you think.
20 >
21 > -h
22 >
23
24 But that link also shows a bright light: RAID arrays are in general more
25 reliable, with BER less than one-third their spec.
26
27 Rgds,
28 --