Originally Posted by
Haselsh1
I once read that critical data in things like aircraft and nuclear power stations are guarded by a 'watchdog' system that constantly checks for errors. I used to use a chemical reactor known as an RC1 calorimeter that also has such a watchdog system. As I use CD's and vinyl, I don't have such worries. My oldest CD still plays fine and that dates from 1983.
The watchdog is likely there to decide where to swap to a second system in the event of a failure...it could be for disks but probably not with Raid etc .
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