On 2013-01-09, Holger Hoffstaette <holger.hoffstae...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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.
Apparenty so. It looks like anybody who'se not using ECC RAM, is
already in a pretty hopeless situation. :/
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