please forgive the 'stupid' question.
Aside from having a convenient hash table of checksums to consult and upon
detection of a collision knowing we are dealing with a duplicate, why checksum
data when the memory bus, PCI-e/x bus, sata/sas bus, and the hard disk itself
use Reed-Solomon (or similar) encoding to store/transmit ECC along with the
data?
Where is this "silent data corruption" supposed to occur? And is the
probability of preventing/catching an occurance a realistically relevant value?
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