Data corruption
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Data corruption is the undesired alteration in computer data that occurs during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing. Computer systems use a number of measures to provide end-to-end
Photo data corruption; in this case, a result of a failed data recovery from a hard disk drive
Screen output of an Atari 2600 with corrupted RAM.
Hard disk drive
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A hard disk drive, hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical computer data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapid
A partially disassembled IBM 350 hard disk drive (RAMAC)
Hitachi 500GB 3.5" drive, 2011, opened to show the disk platters and read/write arm
A 3.5" and a 2.5" HDD with front covers removed to show their internals
Recording of single magnetisations of bits on a 200 MB HDD-platter (recording made visible using CMOS-MagView)