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media failure

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media failure

A condition of not being able to read from or write to a storage device, such as a disk or tape, due to a defect in the recording surface.



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This can be a combination of unexpected failures, such as the replication procedure failing because of an operational error and the original copy being lost because of media failure.
With tape backups, a single media failure can cause a whole restore to fail, and you never know if a piece of media is good until you use it.
VARs reported that 72 percent of their customers have had problems with hardware, software or media failure in attempting to recover data, while 55 percent of end users indicated suffering similar failures.
 
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