System level data corruption is more severe than user data corruption. Unlike user data corruption, where the system will just experience data loss and can continue to log and read data, a system level corruption will cause the host application to experience down time. The system level corruption can affect either the File system data or the OS files. File system errors are errors that will corrupt the Master Boot Record (MBR) or the File Allocation Table (FAT). Upon corruption of these files, the SSD will have to be reformatted, which will cause complete SSD data loss. OS file errors are OS critical files such as config.sys and system.ini files, required for the OS to properly boot. Corruption of these critical files will cause application down time and can also be recovered by formatting and reloading the OS.