--- title: How Erasure Coding is Applied for Data Protection description: Erasure coding is a resilient and efficient method applied for data protection in distributed storage systems. It splits data files into data and parity... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-erasure-coding-is-applied-for-data-protection-fpktgycpk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Erasure Coding is Applied for Data Protection | daily.dev og:description: Erasure coding is a resilient and efficient method applied for data protection in distributed storage systems. It splits data files into data and parity... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-erasure-coding-is-applied-for-data-protection-fpktgycpk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fpKTGyCPK.png og:image:alt: How Erasure Coding is Applied for Data Protection og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Erasure Coding is Applied for Data Protection **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Erasure coding is a resilient and efficient method applied for data protection in distributed storage systems. It splits data files into data and parity blocks, allowing the recovery of primary data even if part of the encoded data is missing. Erasure coding is used in horizontally scalable distributed storage systems to save encoded data across multiple drives and nodes, ensuring data can be reconstructed in case of drive or node failures. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#data-protection](https://daily.dev/tags/data-protection) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-erasure-coding-is-applied-for-data-protection-fpktgycpk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Erasure Coding is Applied for Data Protection","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-erasure-coding-is-applied-for-data-protection-fpktgycpk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-erasure-coding-is-applied-for-data-protection-fpktgycpk"},"datePublished":"2023-10-17T17:15:21.495Z","dateModified":"2023-10-17T17:13:17.800Z","description":"Erasure coding is a resilient and efficient method applied for data protection in distributed storage systems. It splits data files into data and parity...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3583e37c4ee4b150cc863b254f42c4cc?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3583e37c4ee4b150cc863b254f42c4cc?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker Noon","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker Noon","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hackernoon","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-erasure-coding-is-applied-for-data-protection-fpktgycpk","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"data-protection","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker Noon","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How Erasure Coding is Applied for Data Protection"}]} ```