Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the loss of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software malfunction, and consequently, a file may become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer work correctly as its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. 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, etc. In the event that this kind of an issue occurs and it is not recognized by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and if this happens on a disk drive that is part of a RAID array where the data is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all other drives and the harm will become permanent. A number of widespread file systems either do not feature real-time checks or don't have high quality ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common issue on internet hosting servers where large amounts of data are stored.

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