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## What is Bit Rot protection?

Bit Rot, also known as data rot or silent data corruption is a data loss issue faced by disk drives today. Data on the drive may silently get corrupted without signaling an error has occurred, making bit rot more dangerous than a permanent hard drive failure.

complete writing data to the datastore. Object storage operations are atomic by nature and they do not require/implement rename API. The default S3A committer emulates renames through copy and delete APIs. This interaction pattern causes significant loss of performance because of the write amplification. _Netflix_, for example, developed two new staging committers - the Directory staging committer and the Partitioned staging committer - to take full advantage of native object storage operations. These...

#### Rationale

- SSE-C requires application to remember the keys for all GET/PUT operations, any unfortunate loss of keys would automatically mean the objects cannot be accessed anymore.
- SSE-C is hardly adopted by most widely used applications, applications prefer server to manage the keys via SSE-KMS or SSE-S3.