Mehedi Hasan Shoab is a freelance writer specializing in Software as a Service, marketing and real estate. Follow him on Twitter @MhShoab. Data storage is critical to modern education, particularly in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “bit rot”, it refers to ...

Several readers sent me a link to a piece by ExtremeTech's Loyd Case asking me what I thought of the problems he was having with his system: On the mornings I don't head into the ExtremeTech office in ...

Bit rot tech debt happens over time. A component or system slowly devolves into unnecessary complexity through lots of incremental changes, often exacerbated when worked upon by several people who ...

I should add, I'm aware that there are (several) filesystems that do ECC/checksumming, but I'm really more interested in something that can store parity data in standard files. This seems to me to be ...