Data corruption is the accidental transformation of a file or the loss of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software malfunction, and consequently, a file may become partially or completely corrupted, so it will no longer function as it should as its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer present an authentic image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etc. When such an issue appears and it is not recognized by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive which is part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all of the other drives and the harm will be permanent. Many widely used file systems either do not feature real-time checks or do not have good ones which can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on web hosting servers where substantial amounts of data are stored.

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