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What Is Bit Rot And Will It Affect K-12 Data Storage?

EdTech, February 17th, 2023

As K-12 schools gather and store more data, they face an increased risk of losing information to data decay.

Data storage is critical to modern education, particularly in K-12 schools. With the increasing use of technology in the classroom, the amount of data being generated and stored is growing rapidly, and that brings an issue schools must consider: bit rot.

Also known as data decay, bit rot is the gradual corruption of data that occurs over time. This phenomenon can lead to the loss of important information and significantly impact schools' data storage systems.

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