One in a while I update a page in storage on my IT site, when I discover in the nick of time that a candidate hard disk has an extraordinarily high failure rate.
So besides flakey hard disks, there are other problems with hard disks. Over the last 10 years I have had 3 die with 20 others still working
Storage Spaces works ok for smaller requirements but I am into computer chess where PB system are too small.
Now ReFS has some bells and whistles, but right now NTFS is still the mainstream file systems for Windows Server and Hyper-V
One thought is the gold master VHD files I might have for fresh installs of an operating system, ideally I would like those files to have gold plated integrity.
One thought came up, everybody's tables of disk reliability are imperfect, I censor my results with retirements of working disks, I do not know their complete service life
so given disks have maybe 10^14 bit error rate, this means every 12,500,000,000,000 bytes or 6 copies of my hard disk will be wrong.
this gets even lower as disks get bigger and bigger, and so far vendors have not make any effort to raise that value
solomon-reed codes can easily perk up reliability of any file
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