Talk:Data degradation

2005 EEPROM discussion

The article mentions bit rot with respect to EPROMs; what about magnetic storage such as disks and tapes. more info on this discredited cosmic ray theory please

Yeah, seriously. If the theory has been discredited, give a reference. Otherwise the 'discredited' assertion should be removed.

• • Added reference to Intel experiment that showed how background radioactivity of ceramic chip packaging causes bit flips, not cosmic rays. I think IBM has research on cosmic rays affecting high altitude (satellite and aircraft) electronics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rolofft (talk • contribs) 00:58, 28 December 2005‎

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Images are available on Commons

Hi folks! Someone requested that I add the images from my Ars Technica article "Bitrot and Atomic COWs" to this wikipedia article. As a matter of policy and neutrality, I'm not going to edit a wikipedia article that uses an article of mine as a reference, but I've made the actual images - which belong to me, not to Ars Technica - available on Wikimedia Commons using the Creative Commons CCASA-4I license. The first in the series is at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bitrot_in_JPEG_files,_0_bits_flipped.jpg; the notes references the other images in the series, which consist of the same image with 1, 2, and 3 bits flipped, as well as a "cascade" PNG showing all four at once.

The original images are *original*, and may be diff'ed to see where each individual bit was flipped in the series. If anyone would like to use them, here or elsewhere, you have my blessing. Jrssystemsnet (talk) 16:42, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! This is useful, but you need to write a paragraph or so of text to describe and clarify what the photos mean. Simples captions aren't enough. • Sbmeirow • Talk • 04:38, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

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  Bitrot in JPEG files, 0 bits flipped
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  Bitrot in JPEG files, 1 bit flipped
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  Bitrot in JPEG files, 2 bits flipped
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  Bitrot in JPEG files, 3 bits flipped

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