Comments on: Garbage In, Garbage Out From Databases, Too http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/09/garbage-in-garbage-out-from-databases-too/ You suspected it. Now you know it. Tue, 15 May 2012 21:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: gimlet http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/09/garbage-in-garbage-out-from-databases-too/comment-page-1/#comment-36 gimlet Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:33:25 +0000 http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2007/09/18/garbage-in-garbage-out-from-databases-too/#comment-36 Oh, you missed the money quote: "When [CERN] checked 8.7 TB of user data for corruption - 33,700 files - they found 22 corrupted files, or 1 in every 1500 files." Data repositories of 8.7TB and larger aren't unheard of these days, and that number is only going to seem more and more normal as time goes on. Oh, you missed the money quote:

“When [CERN] checked 8.7 TB of user data for corruption – 33,700 files – they found 22 corrupted files, or 1 in every 1500 files.”

Data repositories of 8.7TB and larger aren’t unheard of these days, and that number is only going to seem more and more normal as time goes on.

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