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Latent sector error

A latent sector error is an inaccessible sector whose failure remains undiscovered until that location is accessed.

This is a sector-level observation, not necessarily a failed drive or irrecoverable loss at the array level.

Relations

related

data-scrubbing, raid-5, raid-6

Citations

1. Bairavasundaram, Goodson, Pasupathy and Schindler. An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives. SIGMETRICS 2007, sections 2-4. (accessed 2026-10-11)
2. Hesela: Scrubbing, detection time and repair boundaries (accessed 2026-10-11)

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