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I’ve always understood “bit rot” meaning data getting silently corrupted on o storage device like a hard drive or SSD.
by fmajid 5y ago
I’ve always understood “bit rot” meaning data getting silently corrupted on o storage device like a hard drive or SSD.
- joshspankit 5y agoSame here. “Bit rot” is then analogous to food rot: the longer your data sits unverified, the more likely that there will be flipped bits and therefore “rotten data”.