Is there a way I can create ECC data for hard disk files?
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I've got about 500 GB of data that I'd like to archive onto a hard disk. However, I've found disks to occasionally flip a bit or two over that 500 GB of data over a span of about 5 years or so. Large disk systems mitigate this problem by using multiple drives, and "scrubbing" the data regularly. Ho…
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Yes, these are called parity files. There are various utilities to create these kinds of files, such as Parchive and PAR2. These utilities will generally let you choose how much parity data you wish to generate. The more parity data, the greater you…
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