Data corruption is the unintended modification of a file or the loss of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software fail, and consequently, a file can become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer function correctly because its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer present a real image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In the event that such a problem appears and it's not identified by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive which is a part of a RAID array where the data is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file will be duplicated on all the other drives and the harm will be long term. A number of commonly used file systems either do not offer real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common matter on hosting servers where substantial volumes of data are stored.

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