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Post #878996

Author
obi-juan
Parent topic
Star Wars 1977 releases on 35mm
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Date created
1-Nov-2015, 4:59 PM

I concur on the checksums. With ~380TB of data, silent data corruption is something to be especially vigilant about. While it may be inconvenient, people should look into using filesystems like ZFS with end-to-end checksumming, error-correcting memory, proper shielding, as well as stress-testing their (non-overclocked) systems periodically to keep silent data corruption to a minimum. Hard drives can also be stress tested before holding actual data using utilities such as badblocks.
Film, tapes, laserdiscs, and players don’t last forever; eventually the digitized copy will be the better one in comparison and so data integrity is very important going into the future.