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  "slug": "latent-sector-error",
  "term": "Latent sector error",
  "definition": "A latent sector error is an inaccessible sector whose failure remains undiscovered until that location is accessed.",
  "note": "This is a sector-level observation, not necessarily a failed drive or irrecoverable loss at the array level.",
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      "id": "lse",
      "title": "Bairavasundaram, Goodson, Pasupathy and Schindler. An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives. SIGMETRICS 2007, sections 2-4.",
      "url": "https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmetrics07.pdf",
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      "title": "Hesela: Scrubbing, detection time and repair boundaries",
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