Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the losing of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software failure, and due to this fact, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should since its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer display an authentic image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etc. In the event that such an issue appears and it is not noticed by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive which is a part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all other drives and the harm will become long term. A number of commonly used file systems either do not have real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on hosting servers where substantial amounts of information are kept.

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