On Jan 9, 2013 10:41 PM, "Holger Hoffstaette" < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 +0000 (UTC) > > > >> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently for a long > >> time. > > > > And I'm saying I've never seen that happen. > > Well, that's the point. > > http://storagemojo.com/2007/09/19/cerns-data-corruption-research/ > > Things are much worse than you think. > > -h >
But that link also shows a bright light: RAID arrays are in general more reliable, with BER less than one-third their spec. Rgds, --
