The worst type of errors are silent data corruptions which are errors undetected by the disk firmware or the host operating system; some of these errors may be caused by hard disk drive malfunctions.
The worst type of errors are silent data corruptions. These silent data corruptions are errors undetected by the disk firmware. These silent data corruptions are errors undetected by the host operating system. Some of these errors may be caused by hard disk drive malfunctions.