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Is verifying a MD5 sum after copying 100GB of data safe?

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 20263062 views
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I'm copying 100GB from a Windows 7 workstation to 2 external drives (if you have only one backup, then you have none). All files have a MD5 checksum. I've verified all MD5 checksums on the external disks after the copy, and they were all correct. I have a partition that holds all files I want to ba…

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Fix for: Is verifying a MD5 sum after copying 100GB of data safe?

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If the checksums match then you are near a 100% safe the files were copied correctly, provided the external drive does not fail.

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