How bad will power outrage, forced shutdown affects SSD

[schubaltz]

Just something on my mind, I am sure from time to time, you will be forced to perform a forced shutdown via the power switch.

I wondered if this will affects the SSD as basically data being written at that time might be lost and might corrupt the memory on the SSD, rendering the disk unusable.

May someone clarify my doubts?

 

[davidktw]

Just something on my mind, I am sure from time to time, you will be forced to perform a forced shutdown via the power switch.

I wondered if this will affects the SSD as basically data being written at that time might be lost and might corrupt the memory on the SSD, rendering the disk unusable.

May someone clarify my doubts?

Hardware peripheral may be damaged from sudden power failure but rather rare. SSD would likely, just likely, be safer than HDD since HDD still need to park the heads, which modern HDD manages to do this even for sudden power outrage.

You should worry more for corruption in the file system more or corrupted files instead. However since file system has came a long way with journaling feature, corruption in file system is rare but still possible. More likely in the event of a power failure, files currently been updated may be corrupted or lost depending on how the files are accessed.

To clarify your doubts, your concern is probably quite needless from a hardware perspective

 

[schubaltz]

So the chances of the SSD being bricked from repeated forced shutdown via the power button is quite low?

 

[jtjt00]

Is Singapore or your home electrical power so unstable?

 

[davidktw]

So the chances of the SSD being bricked from repeated forced shutdown via the power button is quite low?

Would you not do so when you have no other choice to access ur OS ? So the answer to your question is do you have other options to resolve your hanged system ?

If not, I don't think you need to worry too much, since either way, you have no options. You probably need to be more concern with your data rather than your SSD. Hardware can be replaced, data is harder, especially when it is generated by the user.

Focus on the right stuffs Do your backup regularly.

 

[SiaoAngMoh]

So the chances of the SSD being bricked from repeated forced shutdown via the power button is quite low?

What's wrong with your system that it requires frequent forced shutdown? I'd look into that first