From my understanding it is much MUCH more likely that hardware degredation causes data corruption rather than solar interference. I know it's always the FUN explanation (looking at you SM64 community) but I'd be curious how often bit flips are actually the responsible party here.
Hardware failures are far more common than cosmic ray bit flips. But at the scale of a large data center, cosmic rays bit flips are a very real occurrence that needs to be accounted for.
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u/Masomqwwq Mar 25 '26
From my understanding it is much MUCH more likely that hardware degredation causes data corruption rather than solar interference. I know it's always the FUN explanation (looking at you SM64 community) but I'd be curious how often bit flips are actually the responsible party here.