Data corruption is the unintended modification of a file or the losing of information which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software malfunction, and as a result, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer function correctly because its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer present 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, etcetera. When this kind of a problem occurs and it's not recognized by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and if this happens on a drive which is part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all other drives and the harm will be permanent. Numerous popular file systems either don't offer real-time checks or do not have high quality ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common issue on hosting servers where huge volumes of information are stored.

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