Problem : When having a system (hardware), that has no protection against sudden power loss (zero power at all), what […]
Tag: data-integrity
How to copy files from HDD to HDD with integrity checking
Problem : I am moving data from an almost dead HDD to an external USB drive using linux , because […]
Does Windows calculate CRCs to check every file operation?
QUESTION : When Windows encounters a file corruption on a file system, it may return the following error message: Data […]
Interpreting the Spin Retry Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value for hard drives
QUESTION : I’m confused about the Spin Retry Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value. On one particular hard drive, I see a […]
Check if a file has been changed
QUESTION : I have the following scenario: A certain process (A) creates files and I want to write a program […]