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Theres an actual phenomenon known as bitrot, where over time, copies and storage, files degrade by having their bits flip. This can apparently accelerate during
by 7speter 4y ago
Theres an actual phenomenon known as bitrot, where over time, copies and storage, files degrade by having their bits flip. This can apparently accelerate during the process of a file being transferred (whether from the internet to a drive or ram or to a drive or vice versa), bits can be misread because of the speed and breadth they come in at. Ecc prevents this.
- trynumber9 4y agoUnfortunately, it doesn't prevent it but reduces the chance. Even with ECC memory regular data integrity checks (or scrubs) are vital for detecting bit rot.
- sliken 4y agoTrue, but those data integrity checks are built into the motherboard/BIOS and happen without any user (or OS) intervention.