Hi Everyone,
I am hoping I can get some clarification on a feature my Areca ARC-1226 RAID card has.
When I attach a SAS drive to it, the card give me the options to reformat the drive to 520-byte sectors. When I do that, there is a status field in the drive information panel of the controller that reads “T-10 Protection Enabled”
I know very little about this feature so I did some research. It sounds like the extra 8 bytes are used for extra checksum information and was created to help fight silent data corruption. (Do I have this correct?)
Is this one way of fighting “bit rot”?
Thanks.
-Brian