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by pixl97 258 days ago
Run enough disks long enough and you'll find one that starts returning garbage while telling the OS everything is ok.

First time I had it happen was on a hardware raid device and a company lost 2 and a half days worth of data as any backups from when it started had bad data.

The next time I had it happen is using ZFS and we saw a flood of checksum errors and replaced the disk. Even after that SMART thought it was perfectly fine and you could send commands to it, you just got garbage back.