Data corruption is the accidental transformation of a file or the loss of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and as a result, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer work correctly as its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer show a true image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, and so on. If this kind of a problem occurs and it is not recognized by the system or by an administrator, the data will get corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive which is part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all other drives and the harm will become permanent. A large number of widely used file systems either do not have real-time checks or don't have good ones which will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common matter on web hosting servers where large amounts of data are stored.

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