On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 06:23:28PM -0400, Peter Johansson wrote:
> I do this for my files and I have never found any corruption of media
> ("bit rot") but I did have an interesting experience moving the data
> from a bunch of bare IDE disks onto a NAS a built a while back.
> Because I had no available IDE ports on the NAS, I was using IDE-USB
> dongles to copy data onto the server.  I was getting quite a number of
> hash fails on the target and it took me *quite* a while to track this
> down to flaky firmware in my USB-IDE dongle.  [...]

Yes, I've seen that too.  The USB IDE adapter was somewhat cheap
though, and the product didn't last long in the market.  I use
checksums to verify USB SATA adapters, combined with an eject and
power cycle to flush any adapter or drive caches.

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